Anasazi kiva, Bandalier, New Mexico

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Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
SCANCOR
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Research Policy
Stanford Project on Emerging Nonprofits (SPEN)
Center for Social Innovation (CSI)
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS)

Research Interests

Networks. Networks are where knowledge resides and action transpires. Networks have been largely invisible, but recent developments in mapping nets have led to an outpouring of work on network topology and dynamics. (more)

Institutions. Institutions are the external memory of society. Institutions focus collective attention, encode the mores and rules of a community, and enable coordination to take place. (more)

University-Industry Interfaces. University-Industry interfaces have grown rapidly over the past two decades as a number of new science-based industries have emerged. This co-mingling of public research and proprietary science raises critical questions about the balance of stocks and flows of knowledge. (more)

Economic Sociology. Economic Sociology is a fast-growing area of study that builds on the observation that the economy and society are closely intertwined and co-evolve. (more)

Comparing Institutional Forms What are the performance and distributional consequences when a good or a service is deliverd by the state, the market, or a nonprofit organization?(more)

The Powell Lab (SONG)

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wiki (members only)

Teaching

Organizational Theory Soc 363A / Edu 375A
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Institutional Analysis Soc 363B / Edu 375B
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