NICOLE WOOLSEY BIGGART Professor of Management and Sociology Jerome J. and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management Co-director, Center for Women and Leadership Dean of the Graduate School of Management University of California at Davis (USA) Personal page: http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/index.aspx?id=540 Publications (pdf) Faculty 2008 - Short profile

Education: B.A. at Simmons College; M.A. at University of California-Davis; Ph.D. at University of California-Berkeley

Research interests: Economic and organizational sociology; Comparative organizations; Sociology of complex organizations; Organizational behavior; Organization strategy and structure; Experiential approaches to management; Industrial change and social bases of technology adoption; Management of innovation; Asian organization and management; Firm networks; Human resources management; Women and work; Sociology of mass communications.

Present positions: Advisory Board, Sloan Foundation-Social Science Research Council Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution ● Editorial Board: Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society; California Management Review.

Awards and acknowledgments: Best Paper Award 2004, Academy of Management Review, for the paper System of exchange (http://www.aimresearch.org/newsletter/010905newsletter.pdf) ● Honorable mention for Best Paper in Comparative Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for Developing difference: Social organization and the rise of the auto industries in South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina, 1999 ● Honorable mention for Best Paper in Comparative Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for Market, culture and authority: A comparative analysis of management and organization in the Far East, 1988

Web resources on Professor Biggart: Biggart on Roles of women in contemporary society, at Wisconsin Public Radio, 2006 (listen at: http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/ideas_audioarchives.cfm?Code=dun) ● On the road ... Sardina, Italy: Biggart impression ( http://www.prospermag.com/go/prosper/business_blog/nicole_woolsey_biggart/on_the_road_sardinia_italy/index.cfm) ● Interview with Dean Nicole Biggart, 2003 (http://students.gsm.ucdavis.edu/WIL/News/news.html) ● Biggart's vision for Graduate School fo management, 2003 (http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=7043) ● Nicole Biggart: First recipient of the Suran Chair in Technology Management, 2002 (http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/innovator/fall2002/SuranChair.pdf ) ● Presentation: Developing difference: Social organization and the rise of auto industries in South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Argentina, 1999 (http://www.si.umich.edu/ICOS/Presentations/031299/)

SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

Working papers and drafts:

(----) Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Banking on each other: t£he situational logic of rotating savings and credit associations ( http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/oswc/2000/papers/wednesday/NicoleBiggart.doc)

Updated: January 27, 2007