 
Click here for personal webpage BIO AND RESEARCH I have interests in organizational and economic sociology, social studies of science and technology, and gender and work issues. I am continuing to work on projects from my dissertation, which examines the effects of the emergence of the biotechnology industry on careers of life scientists. In my research on life scientists and the biotechnology industry, I found that organizational form affects gender inequality in a counterintuitive way-network organizations (biotech firms), rather than being just for old boys, better facilitate women's careers than do more hierarchical arrangements found in large pharmaceuticals and academe. Two new projects are also in process. One is to continue investigating how the flexible network form of organization, in comparison to more hierarchical arrangements, allows for greater gender equality among professionals. I am gathering data on a new empirical case to compare to my findings in biotechnology. The second project is a study of the inclusion of research ethics in graduate training for life science Ph.D.s.SELECT PUBLICATIONS "The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships." 2001. With Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, and James I. Bowie. Forthcoming in a special issue of Regional Studies. "Network Position and Firm Performance: Organizational Returns to Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry." 1999. Pp. 129-59 in Networks in and Around Organizations, Volume 16 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations, edited by S.B. Andrews and D. Knoke. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. With Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput and Jason Owen-Smith. "Networks and Knowledge Production: Collaboration and Patenting in Biotechnology." 1999. Pp. 390-408 in Corporate Social Capital and Liability, edited by R.T.A.J. Leenders and S. Gabbay. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. With Jason Owen-Smith, Kenneth W. Koput and Walter W. Powell. "Strategies of Learning and Industry Structure: The Evolution of Networks in Biotechnology." 1997. Pp. 229-54 in Organizational Learning and Strategic Management, Volume 14 of Advances in Strategic Management Research, edited by J.P. Walsh and A.S. Huff. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. With Kenneth W. Koput and Walter W. Powell. "Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology." 1996. Administrative Science Quarterly 41: 116-45. With Walter W. Powell and Kenneth W. Koput. "The Role of Networks in Economic Life." 1994. Pp. 368-402 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by N.J. Smelser and R. Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. With Walter W. Powell.department
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