CURRICULUM VITAE

Martin Ruef (Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill)

INDEX:

EDUCATION	PUBLICATIONS	CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	TEACHING EXPERIENCE	AWARDS and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Sociology January 1999; Stanford University (SU)
M.A., Sociology June 1994; Stanford University (SU)
B.S., Computer Science (Magna Cum Laude) May 1990; Virginia Polytechnic Institute

DISSERTATION:

The Rise of Managed Health Care: An Inquiry into the Evolution of Discourse, Ideology, and Power

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor [1999-present]; Department of Sociology (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Research Scholar [1998-1999]; Center for Entrepreneurial Studies; Stanford Graduate School of Business
Research Assistant to W. Richard Scott [1994-1998]; Department of Sociology (Stanford)
Research Assistant to Michael Fehling [1997]; Department of EES and Operations Research (Stanford)
Research Assistant to Michael Fehling [1994]; Department of Engineering-Economic Systems (Stanford)
Applications Programmer for Manugistics, Inc. [1991-1993]; Technologies Division (Rockville, MD)
Consultant for IBM [1991]; Token-Ring LAN Division (Research Triangle Park, NC)

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PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

· W. Richard Scott, Martin Ruef, Peter Mendel, and Carol Caronna. 2000. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

· Martin Ruef. forthcoming. "At the Interstices of Organizations: The Expansion of the Management Consulting Profession, 1933-97," Chapter 8 in Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Lars Engwall (eds.) Carriers of Management Knowledge: Ideas and Their Global Circulation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Refereed):

· Martin Ruef. forthcoming. "The Emergence of Organizational Forms: A Community Ecology Approach," American Journal of Sociology (accepted for publication).

· Martin Ruef. 1999. "Social Ontology and the Dynamics of Organizational Forms: Creating Market Actors in the Healthcare Field, 1966-94", Social Forces, 77(4): 1405-1434.

· Martin Ruef and W. Richard Scott. 1998. "A Multidimensional Model of Organizational Legitimacy: Hospital Survival in Changing Institutional Environments," Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(4): 877-904.

· Martin Ruef, Peter Mendel and W. Richard Scott. 1998. "An Organizational Field Approach to Resource Environments in Healthcare: A Comparison of Hospital and HHA Entries in the San Francisco Bay Region," Health Services Research, 32(6): 776-803.

· Martin Ruef. 1997a. "Assessing Organizational Fitness on a Dynamic Landscape: An Empirical Test of the Relative Inertia Thesis," Strategic Management Journal, 18(11): 837-854.

· Martin Ruef. 1997b. "Prolegomenon to the Relation Between Social Theory and Method," Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 22(2): 1-30.

· Martin Ruef. 1996. "The Evolution of Convention: Conformity and Innovation in Task-Oriented Networks," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2(1): 5-28.

BOOK REVIEWS:

· Martin Ruef. 1999. Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street by Mitchel Abolafia, Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(3): 624-627.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

· Martin Ruef. "Origins of Organization: The Process of Entrepreneurship," under review.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

· Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy [Fall 2000]; Instructor, Department of Sociology (UNC-CH)

· Data Analysis in Sociological Research [Spring 2000]; Instructor, Department of Sociology (UNC-CH)

· Statistical Methods for Sociologists [Winter 1997]; Instructor, Department of Sociology (SU)

· Social Scientific Computing (Grad) and Computer-Assisted Data Analysis (Undergrad) [Fall 1995]; Instructor, Department of Sociology (SU)

· Advanced Models for Discrete Outcomes [Spring 1996]; Teaching Assistant to Nancy Tuma, Department of Sociology (SU)

· Human-Computer Interaction: Contextual and Organizational Issues [Spring 1996]; Teaching Assistant to Terry Winograd, Department of Computer Science (SU)

· Organization Theory [Fall 1994]; Teaching Assistant to Andrew Creighton and W. Richard Scott, Department of Sociology (SU)

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Refereed):

"The Emergence of Organizational Forms: A Community Ecology Approach", ASA Annual Meetings in Washington DC. 2000.
"Barbarians at the Gate? The Entry of U.S. Business Professionals into Non-Market Sectors, 1950-97", ASA Annual Meetings in Washington DC. 2000.
"The Emergence of Organizational Forms: A Community Ecology Approach," Stanford Conference on Strategic Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 2000.
"'Paper Entrepreneurialism': The Institutionalization of Management Consulting, 1933-1997," SCANCOR Conference on Carriers of Management Knowledge at Stanford University. 1999.
"Institutional Foundations of Organizational Decision-Making: Instrumental, Normative, and Cognitive Influences in Contractual Affiliation." ASA Annual Meetings in Chicago. 1999.
"The De(RE)structuration of Organizational Fields." Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Chicago. 1999 (with W. Richard Scott, Peter Mendel, and Carol Caronna).
"Profound Institutional Change in Healthcare Systems: Transformation of the Field of Organizations in a Metropolitan Area since 1945." ASA Annual Meetings in San Francisco. 1998 (with W. Richard Scott, Peter Mendel, and Carol Caronna).
"Reason, Rationalization, and Jurisdictional Strength: Modes of Argumentation among Health Care Professionals, 1975-1994." ASA Annual Meetings in San Francisco. 1998.
"Semantic Networks: Cognitive Systems of Belief and Evaluation." Sunbelt XVIII and 5th European International Conference on Social Networks in Barcelona. 1998.
"A Multidimensional Model of Organizational Legitimacy: Hospital Survival in Changing Institutional Environments." Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Boston. 1997 (with W. Richard Scott).
"An Organizational Field Approach to Resource Environments in Health Care: A Comparison of Hospital and HHA Entries in the San Francisco Bay Region." ASA Annual Meetings in Toronto. 1997 (with Peter Mendel and W. Richard Scott).
"Assessing Organizational Fitness on a Dynamic Landscape: An Empirical Test of the Relative Inertia Thesis." ASA Annual Meetings in New York City. 1996.
"The Social Construction of Organizational Histories: A Quantitative Approach to Narrative Analysis." ASA Annual Meetings in New York City. 1996 (with Tari Vickery and W. Richard Scott).
"Prolegomenon to the Relation Between Social Theory and Method: Bridging the Qualitative / Quantitative Divide." SCOR Asilomar Conference in Monterey, CA. 1996.
"The Evolution of Convention: Conformity and Innovation in Task-Oriented Networks." SCOR Asilomar Conference in Monterey, CA. 1995.

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AWARDS and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

· 2000 Participant at the Stanford Strategic Management Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

· 1999 Participant in the SCANCOR Workshop on Carriers of Management Knowledge at Stanford University.

· 1997-98 McCoy Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

· 1996 La Piere Award for Best Paper, "Assessing Organizational Fitness on a Dynamic Landscape: An Empirical Test of the Relative Inertia Thesis." Department of Sociology, Stanford University, CA.

· 1996 Participant in the CCOR Workshop on Computational Modeling and Network Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University.

· 1995-96 Member of Stanford Center for Organization Research Steering Committee.

· 1995 Best Student Paper Award, "Computational Social Systems: A Metatheoretical Grammar and Methodology for Studying Structurational Dynamics." Computing for the Social Sciences Conference in San Diego, CA.

· 1995 Participant in the Research Methods Workshop on Processes of Organizational Change at the University of Minnesota.

· 1994-95 Co-Chair of the Stanford Association for Sociology Graduate Students.

· 1994 Participant in the Evolutionary Theories of Organizations Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley.

Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, American Sociological Association, Academy of Management

Reviewer for:

American Journal of Sociology (AJS)
Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ)
Academy of Management Journal (AMJ)
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT)
Health Services Research (HSR)
Organization Science

Editorial Board(s):

Social Forces

Last modified September 20, 2000.