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Section Annual Report for Organizations, Occupations, and Work

This annual report covers the period of section activity from September 2017 to August 2018 and a fiscal year from January 2018 to December 2018. The report is typically completed by the immediate past chair of each section as it covers the period this person served as chair. However, it is often completed in consultation with other officers and it may be submitted by anyone on the section council. Sections that do not file an Annual Report will have their budget allocation withheld until a complete report is received. Please submit the report by November 15. Section Governance Provide details of your section’s governance activity during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

Business Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes from the section business meeting which include a count of members present and summary of decisions made at this meeting.

The OOW Business Meeting took place on Tuesday, August 15 at 10:30-12. Approximately 39 Section members were in attendance. The Business Meeting agenda follows:

Agenda Business Meeting of the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work

ASA Philadelphia 2018

1. Introductions 2. State of the Section

a. Budget b. Scheduling conflict with Academy of Management c. Publications d. Program for 2019 e. New business?

3. Authors-meet-OOW – Awards ceremony

The Business Meeting proceeded in accord with the agenda reported above. Detailed minutes follow:

Minutes Business Meeting

Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work ASA Philadelphia

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ASA Organizations, Occupations

and Work Section Business

Meeting

Call to order The business meeting of Organizations, Occupations and Work Section (OOW) is held at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 5 on August 11th 2018; 10:30am- 11:15pm.

Attendees Members of the Section who attended include Elisabeth Clemens (EC) (Chair); Emily Barman (Chair-elect); and Giacomo Negro (Incoming Secretary-Treasurer). 39 members of the section signed in.

Introductions/Pleasantries EC, as Chair, introduces herself and greets everyone. She extends thanks to outgoing officers, and introduces new officers. One office in particular that will be discussed: Public engagement liaison.

State of the Section Alaz Kilicaslan, as Secretary-Treasurer informs the attendees about the current financial situation of the Section. He indicates that the section is doing well financially. It has about $12,000 in revenues. As of July 2018 income for the section totaled roughly $3,700, slightly above the expected $3,500. Income includes section budget allocation and dues. Alaz mentions that the section received an allocation from Emerald Group for the publication of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume. Expenses were roughly $3,300, and greater than in the previous year. The reason was Section reception costing more. The balance is roughly $9,000. EC mentions that she does not expect the activities in NYC in 2019 to be any more economical. Motion to authorize the budget for next year was moved, seconded and approved unanimously. EC discusses the issue of schedule overlap between the ASA Meeting and Academy of Management (AOM) Meetings. Next year the two conferences will take place on the same coast but also on the same days. It is noted that the overlap between the two conferences will be days 2 and 3 in 2019, and days 3 and 4 in 2020. The issue to consider is that ASA-OOW wishes to maintain the vibrancy of the relationship with sections within AOM. Additional activities can be added to OOW in the next couple of years to increase attendance to ASA of members who are also members of AOM. Opportunities include an OOW-related pre-conference or post-conference (which would reduce the schedule overlap). Introduction of publications Works in Progress, and The Press. Works in Progress is a public sociology blog co-sponsored by four ASA Sections including OOW. The other three Sections are: Economic

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Sociology; Labor and Labor Movements; and Inequality, Poverty and Mobility. Works in Progress includes anything that members write that can be of interest to the public. Twitter accounts include academics, and press (NYT, Wash Post, WSJ) roughly in equal shares. An invitation is made to submit summaries for public dissemination. (attendance sheet is circulated) EC discusses as item the opportunity to continue with practice of open call for papers. Floor is open for discussion and comments. Comment 1: if pre- or post-conference is organized, can we think of themes for these events? EC suggests one such theme for 2020 can be governance of work and professions. Mark Suchman notes the advantage of very open topics can draw people from other areas to share their work. Very open topics are also inclusive. An attendee comments that the participation of senior people to pre- or post-conferences can pull greater attendance. Nina Bandelj: what is the opportunity for a post-conference? EC mentions that another opportunity for additional OOW activities would be a mentoring dinner the evening before the conference.

Award Ceremony The Max Weber Book Award is announced. The winner is Anju Mary Paul for “Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market”, 2017, Cambridge University Press. Two Honorable Mentions are also announced: John Krinsky and Maud Simonet for “Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City”, 2017, University of Chicago Press; and Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder for “Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability”, 2016, Russell Sage Foundation. The award is presented but Anju Mary Paul cannot accept it in person because of teaching obligations. Justification for award (winner and honorable mentions) is presented. The W. Richard Scott Article Award is announced. The winner is Erin Metz McDonnel for “Patchwork Leviathan: How Pockets of Bureaucratic Governance Flourish within Institutionally Diverse Developing States”, 2017, American Sociological Review, 82:476-510. Justification for award is presented. The James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award is announced. The winner is Jennifer Bouek for “Navigating Networks: How Nonprofit Network Membership Shapes Responses to Resource Scarcity”, 2018, Social Problems, 65: 11-32. Justification for award is presented. Finally, the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award (OOW Distinguished Career Award) is announced. The winner is Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina. This is a career achievement award, first given to Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and then named after her. Justification for award is presented.

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Discussion with individual award winners follows in an Author-meets-OOW format (a series of questions/answers between a section officer and the award winner followed by open discussion for approximately 15 minutes for the Career Award, Article Award, and Graduate Student Award)..

Giacomo Negro 11/23/2018

Secretary Date of approval Council Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes of all Council Meetings conducted between August 2017 and September 2018. Minutes must include a list of council members present and a summary of decisions made. Minutes are not a transcript of proceedings but a listing of what discussions took place and official actions taken.

Agenda

Council Meeting of the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work ASA Philadelphia 2018

1. Introductions and Thanks 2. Election Results: officers and approval of by-laws 3. Report of the Secretary-Treasurer 4. Membership

a. August 2016: 887 b. July 2017: 911 c. July 2018: 905

5. Publications 6. Award Committees 7. ASA/AOM scheduling conflicts 8. Projects for the future.

The Council Meeting proceeded in accord with the agenda reported above. Detailed minutes follow:

Minutes Council Meeting

Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work ASA Philadelphia 2018

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ASA Organizations, Occupations

and Work Section Council

Meeting

Call to order The council meeting of Organizations, Occupations and Work Section was held at Bank and Bourbon, Loew's Hotel 1200 Market St, Philadelphia on August 11th 2018; 7:00am- 8:30am

Attendees Attendees include Elisabeth Clemens (Chair); Mark Suchman (Past-Chair); Emily Barman (Chair-Elect); Nina Bandelj; Tim Bartley; Alaz Kilicaslan; Giacomo Negro; David Pedulla; Elizabeth Popp Berman; Chris Prener; Michael Sauder; Josh Seim; Benjamin Shestakofsky; Melissa Wooten.

Members not in attendance Members not in attendance include Lisa Cohen; Michael McQuarrie; Ofer Sharone.

Introductions Elisabeth Clemens (EC), as Chair, greets everyone. She thanks Mark Suchman for further developing the institutional framework for the section, and Lisa Cohen. EC also communicates that the section had a successful election.

State of the Section Mark Suchman reports on outreach activities. The section focused on increasing student membership (and asked faculty to contribute funds for student membership. EC indicates that in 2016 the number of members was 877. In 2017 it increased to 905. To increase membership further, she suggests reaching out to former members who are not members. She notes that by the end of the ASA meetings the section may reach higher membership because of on-site registration. Nina Bandelj notes that reaching the 1,000 number in membership is important to obtain an extra session at ASA meetings. EC mentions that the schedule overlap with the Academy of Management Meetings can reduce attendance of the ASA Meetings and membership for OOW. Mark Suchman notes that members who sign between August and the end of September will count for this year’s membership, and to obtain an extra session at next year’s ASA meeting members signing up now will have to rejoin next year. EC discusses the new position of public engagement liaison for ASA, who is responsible to identify experts in the field when they are needed for media engagement. Mark Suchman has completed the term ex officio. EC asks whether the role will be distinct (independent or the chair). Mark Suchman

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suggest that if we continue with an ex officio appointment the person doing it probably should be from the publications committee. Comment (from publications committee): the public engagement liaison is a demanding job, and the section will need to think about the appointment. Alaz Kilicaslan, as Secretary-Treasurer informs the attendees about the current financial situation of the Section. He indicates that the section is doing well financially. It has about $12,000 in revenues. As of July 2018 income for the section totaled roughly $3,700, slightly above the expected $3,500. Income includes section budget allocation and dues. Alaz mentions that the section received an allocation from Emerald Group for the publication of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume. Expenses were roughly $3,300, and greater than in the previous year. The reason was Section reception costing more. The balance is roughly $9,000. EC mentions that thinking ahead, less money could be spent for the Section reception, and maybe more for breakfast. Mark Suchman mentions that money from the Emerald allocation may stop, and that it could not be used to pay for student membership. He suggests that next year the Section could organize a pre-conference. In the previous year, the Section organized one with the Economic Sociology Section, and it could be repeated. Motion was moved, seconded and approved unanimously. EC suggests co-sponsoring a reception with another Section.

Committee Reports Awards committee Articles: The committee received a healthy pool of submissions (37). Five or six papers were deserving of an award. One open question was how to asses submissions of papers where that had some organizational component but organizations was not the main focus (race was the main focus). Books: The committee received 37 submissions. This large number of submissions can be overwhelming to evaluate. The committee includes five members, and at least two are needed to read each book. To gauge the workload it is suggested to consider whether members in this committee are also serving in another committee, especially. The issue of potential conflict of interest, particularly favoring/not favoring books that won awards in another section, is also mentioned. To reduce the impact of these issues EC suggests to reach out to senior people to join the committee. Publications Chris Prener introduces Works in Progress, of which he editor in chief. Works in Progress is a public sociology blog co-sponsored by four ASA Sections including OOW. The other three Sections are: Economic Sociology; Labor and Labor Movements; and Inequality, Poverty and Mobility. Works in Progress includes anything that members write that can be of interest to the public. It counts about 5,000 unique visitors a month. Chris considers this number decent but notices that is has not been increasing. It is discussed that the volume of readership may have to do with the volume of contacts. Other blogs have paid editors, while Works in Progress has volunteers. It is doing relatively well with the volunteer model, but the Section may want to consider alternative models along the way. Other blogs have many, many more visitors (LSE, The Conversation).

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It is reported that Works in Progress has contacted The Conversation to develop an agreement with them for use of content. (NOTE: The Conversation is an independent, not-for-profit media outlet. Articles are authored by academics, edited by professional journalists and freely available online, and for republication through creative commons license.) One open question is whether the content in Works in Progress is still too theoretical for publication in The Conversation. Authors write their own summaries for Works in Progress. EC mentions that the Press at Chicago for AJS writes the blurbs for authors.

Old business EC discusses the relationship with Emerald, which publishes Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) and Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW). An email from Steven Vallas (RSW) was circulated among the Section leaders. Michael Sauder mentions that there is a yearly renewal process in place now and that the contract is changing. Mark Suchman suggests that if the Section is to continue the relationship with Emerald that it should include both RSW and RSO. EC moves a motion to approve a one-year extension of the contract contingent on the publications committee approval. The motion is seconded and approved unanimously

New business EC discusses the overlap between the ASA Meeting and Academy of Management (AOM) Meetings. Additional activities can be added to the OOW activities in the next couple of years (in NYC and San Francisco) to increase attendance to ASA of members who are also members of AOM. Coordination with AOM can be increased with respect to specific issues, for example graduate students. It is noted that the overlap between the two conferences will be days 2 and 3 in 2019, and days 3 and 4 in 2020. About one third of OOW members are also members of the Economic Sociology Section, which will also be affected by the same issue. To address the schedule overlap with AOM Emily Barman mentions the opportunity for an OOW-related pre-conference or post-conference. Mark Suchman encourages to think more about opportunities for mid-year conference events, regardless of counter-scheduling EC concludes the meeting by thanking Mark Suchman, and Emily Barman.

Giacomo Negro 11/23/2018

Secretary Date of approval

Adjournment

The Council Meeting adjourned at approximately 8:30am.

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The Previous Year Describe section activities during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts did the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the efforts?

Overview Please provide an overview of your section’s programming for the last year. We also invite you to include information on the state of the section, sentiments of the members, important issues in the field.

___________________________________________________________________________ OOW continues to be one of the largest and most vibrant sections in the ASA. We have over 931 current members (as of September 30, 2018); 296 are student members; 34 are low-income memberships. We hosted six Paper Panels at the 2017 Annual Meeting, as well as a full-length Roundtable session with 21 tables, and a full-length Business Meeting and Award Ceremony. The OOW sessions were generally well-attended and energetic. The Section launched several new initiatives during the 2016-2017 year: Distinguished Career Award: For the first time, the section awarded the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Career

award to someone not named Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Howard Aldrich of the University of North Carolina.

Emerald Publishing Affiliation: In Fall 2016, the Section formalized its affiliation with Emerald

Publishing’s journals, Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) and Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO). In exchange for an annual allocation of funds ($1500 per year), the journals receive the right to identify themselves as affiliated with the Section. In addition to the financial allocation, the Emerald affiliation carries several other benefits to the Section, such as limited-time free access and reduced subscription prices for Section members, and sponsorship of a Distinguished Career Award Reception. The provisions of the agreement were discussed extensively at the Section’s 2015, 2016 and 2017 Business Meetings, and were formally announced on the Section listserv after the agreement went into effect.

The ASA Committee on Publications has specified that this agreement is up for renewal/reconsideration each year. Because everything has proceeded smoothly so far, we are optimistic that the agreement, or some successor, will continue to remain in place at least through 2018. However, if the ASA eventually adopts a policy of centralizing journal sponsorships, we urge the Committee on Publications to preserve a role for the cognizant Sections, and to designate a significant portion of the sponsorship revenues for Section use.

The Council recommended and the Business meeting approved renewal of this arrangement for an additional year.

Committee Chairs: As in 2016-2017, all OOW Section Committees were chaired by members of the

Section Council, in order to improve information flow between Committees and the Section leadership. This reform has achieved its desired objectives.

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Call for Volunteers: We have continued to make use of the Call for Volunteers introduced by Mark Suchman during his term as chair. This has allowed section officers to go beyond their own professional networks when composing section committees. The Section chair sends a note before and after the ASA with the link to the Google form. The resulting spreadsheet of volunteers – each of whom indicates their interest in particular committees – is then circulated first to the chair of the Program Committee, then to Chair of Nominations, then to the Chairs of the awards committees. Overall, this has been a great success in expanding the range of participation in section activities.

Annual Meeting Program: For a third year, OOW has treated all OOW Section sessions as “open

submission,” with the exception of one session reserved as “Chair’s Choice” (this year the theme was “Revisiting Organizational Power” which generated a very well-attended session). OOW Roundtables are allocated a full-length session of their own, separate from the session that ASA designates for the Section’s Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony. This approach has improved the quality of both events.

Section Logo: Due to some difficulties with the vendor website, OOW did not sell logo gear this year.

We hope to resume this fund-raising in the future.

Recruiting and Retention Efforts What efforts did your section make to retain last year’s members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the section’s retention efforts?

___________________________________________________________________________ In July 2018, the OOW Chair announced “Monsoon Madness” with an offer of gift memberships for students. Approximately 25 such gifts were made prior to the July 31 cut-off date. At the end of September, the section membership of 931was slightly down from the previous year (966, including 320 student members and 36 low-income) which had featured both a mini-conference and less of a direct conflict with the Academy of Management. Our discussions of possible pre-/post-conference events for the coming years (see business meeting minutes) were made in full awareness of this challenge. Communications Strategy How does your section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any new t

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• Communications – How does the section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any new technologies or strategies? If so, were they effective? Include links to the section website, newsletters, and any other electronic media used.

OOW Publications efforts are handled by an enthusiastic and highly skilled team of junior faculty and graduate students, co-chaired by Matt Vidal and Chris Prener. OOW has adopted a policy of reserving its official ASA announcement list for Section business. Other news and postings are redirected to the OOW Blog, and from there to the monthly OOW Newsletter. The newsletter is distributed by email and is also available via Facebook. OOW also hosts a separate, more public-facing Blog, entitled “Work in Progress.” Since 2016, this blog has been co-sponsored with the Sections on Economic Sociology and on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, significantly increasing both its reach and its access to member-generated content. The Work in Progress blog is well-followed (including by members of the press), and it has provided an excellent platform for publicizing new research findings and commentary by the Section membership. The OOW blogs can be found at:

http://workinprogress.oowsection.org/ http://oowsection.org/

• Mentoring – What, if any, mentoring opportunities does the section offer to students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.? Click here to enter text.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc.

The OOW Program Committee, composed of Tarun Banerjee, Emily Barman, Erin Kelly, Ming Leung,

Polly Rizova, Klaus Weber), organized four panels. The OOW Roundtables were organized by Eric

Dahlin, Nicole Denier, and Ken-Hou Lin. Culture and Organizations

Description: The papers in this session provide an array of approaches to theorizing the role of culture in organizations, including cultural competency and hiring, evaluations within and across organizations, and organizational strategies in addressing social concerns.

Gender and Work

Description: The papers in this session explore how gendered barriers and opportunities across multiple levels shape the experience of men and women workers.

New Forms and Relations of Work

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Description: The papers in this session investigate an emerging array of new ways of organizing work, involving new temporal and spatial arrangements. Professions and Networks Description: The papers in this session examine the influence of professions and networks in shaping organizational, occupational, and work outcomes. Plans for the Coming Year Describe section plans for the period between September 2018 and August 2019. These plans should align with the 2018 budget and proposed 2019 budget below.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts will the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What are the goals of the efforts? We anticipate repeating the June/July student gift membership program

• Communications – How does the section plan to communicate with its members? Does the section plan on using any new technologies or strategies? If so, how? OOW will continue to rely on a combination of its own monthly newsletter and the *Work in Progress* blog.

• Mentoring – What efforts will the section make to mentor students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.? We discussed a possible mentorship event in NYC, possibly on Friday night so that we might catch some of the section members who will be headed to the Academy of Management meetings in Boston. Emily Barman, the section chair, is in conversations. Although it was not in the standard format of a mentoring session, the reorganization of the awards ceremony into an authors-meet-authors-meet-OOW addressed some of these issues. We arranged talk-show like converstaions with three of the award winners (career, best article, and graduate student paper). A member of the relevant award committee opened with a series of questions and, the section half of each 15 –minute section was opened to the audience. This produced a really interesting conversation about how to approach a creer, the process of writing papers and moving from graduate student to scholar.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s upcoming plans for programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc.

In accord with prior OOW practice, the Section’s 2018 Program Committee will be chaired by Chair-Elect Mike Sauder. For 2018, the Section has been allocated 6 Program slots (including the required Council / Business Meeting slot). We have no outstanding co-sponsorship agreements with other Sections, and we intend to follow our standing policy from prior years of designating all (or all but one) of our session allocation

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as Open Topic, Open Submission. We plan to repeat the “Authors-Meet-OOW” format for at least some of the awards for the second half of the session allocated to the business meeting. Unfortunately, our 2018 allocation of 7 sessions represents a loss of two sessions from 2017 -- one because our Section Day will be rotating from Day 4 to Day 1, and the other because we fell below the 1000-member threshold for the first time in several years (see above). We are somewhat concerned that this may force us to combine the Business Meeting, Award Ceremony, and Roundtables into a single slot, in order to free up panel sessions for a reasonable share of our best open-submission papers. The Program Committee and Section Chair will be revisiting this question in February, once we have had an opportunity to evaluate the submission pool.

In addition to our regular program sessions, we hope to repeat the authors-meet-authors-meet OOW format as well as possibly planning a mentoring event one evening.

2018 Finances Provide a narrative on how the 2018 budget matched with actual expenses and income from 2018. Please account for any substantive differences.

The reception cost substantially more than anticipated; to bring our expenditures into line with the budget, the section chair covered the council breakfast and plaques out of her research account.

Budget for 2019 Creating a budget will help the section plan its activities for the year. Your 2019 budget should reflect the narrative in the “Plans for the Coming Year” section. The following table will help you organize and calculate a budget. Expected 2019 Expenditures

Expense Category Budgeted Amount Details (use the cells in this column to provide information on each expense)

Annual Meeting

Reception $2,500 Use this space to provide details

Other Meeting Expenses $ 750 Use this space to provide details

Awards

Student Awards $ 500 Use this space to provide details

Award Plaques $ 350 Use this space to provide details

Other $ Enter amount Use this space to provide details

Communications

Website $ 140 Use this space to provide details

Newsletter $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Other $ 650 Other expenses related to Work in Progress

Miscellaneous

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Membership $ 298 These funds were raised through sales of logo gear and donations. They may be used for student gift memberships

Other $ Enter amount Use this space to provide details

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures

$ 5188.00 Sum estimated expenses

Estimated 2019 Income

Income Category Estimated Amount Details

Section Allocation – Base $ 1000 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 1 on how this figure is calculated.

Section Allocation – Per Member $ 1862 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 2 on how this figure is calculated.

Premium Dues $ 988 ASA Office will provide an estimated figure. See note 3 on how this figure is calculated.

Contributions $ 0

Misc $ 1500

Total 2019 Estimated Income $ 5350 Sum estimated income

Budget Summary

Estimated Remaining Balance at end of December 2018 $ 8377

Accounting for all estimated costs for the remainder of the year, estimate the remaining balance.

Total 2019 Estimated Income +$ 5350 Fill in from the Estimated Income table above

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures

- $ 5188 Fill in from the Budgeted Expenditures table above

Total = $ 8539 To calculate net amount, sum Lines 1 and 2, then subtract Line 3.

Notes The following explains how income is calculated. By October 20, the ASA Office will provide the following information, so sections do not have to calculate estimates themselves.

1 Section Allocation – Base Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive a base allocation as follows:

• Sections with 300 or more members receive a base allocation of $1,000

• Sections with fewer than 300 members and more than 200 members receive: [# of section members - 100] x $5

• Sections with fewer than 199 members receive a base allocation of $500 2 Section Allocation – Per Member Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive two dollars for each member. 3 Premium Dues The base rate is $10 for regular members, $5 for students and $10 for associate, low income, and high school teacher members. Any dues raised by the sections in excess of the base rate go directly to the section throughout the year based on actual membership numbers. Subscription Fees for Section Journals are not added here.

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To see current and historical membership counts, please visit www.asanet.org/SectionMembership. Please note that membership year ends on September 30.

Miscellaneous Is there any additional information about the section or the area of study you would like to share with the Committee on Sections? Is there any feedback you would like to provide to the Committee on Sections?

NB: the $1500 entry under miscellaneous income represents the expected payment from Emerald Publishing.