Joel
A.C. Baum's Home Page
Professor of Strategic
Management
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University of Toronto
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“The juvenile sea
squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral
to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary
nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root it doesn't need its
brain anymore so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure.” neuroscientist, Rodolfo Llinas as elaborated by Daniel C. Dennett in Consciousness
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EPINETS
The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks
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What reviewers are saying:
“Epinets is a demanding and brilliant book. It demands and
deserves from its audience a very close read… Epinets
is a remarkably smart and creative book that is likely to shape the
intellectual landscape far into the future. We strongly encourage others to
read and especially to use it.” Matthew S. Bothner
and Henning Piezunka. Administrative Science
Quarterly. “In Epinets,
Moldoveanu and Baum aggressively dial up the
cognitive turn in sociology by showing how fundamentally “social”
concepts, from trust and status to brokerage, closure, and various
configurations of social organization, have roots in interactive social
epistemology… The book is imperfect, but the scope of the epinets research program no less than thrilling. I do not
believe that I will ever view social networks in the same way again… the vision is compelling. I highly
recommend this book.” James A. Evans. American
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Research
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View my CV or research pages at ResearchGate,
Google
Scholar and SSRN
My research focuses on patterns of
competition and cooperation among firms, and their influence on firm behavior
and learning. My current projects
include:
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Securities Analyst Networks
A project examining the impact and dynamics of securities analyst
networks, in particular, the influence of multipoint contact on competition
among analysts for investor attention and status.
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Peer
Production Networks
A project investigating the
effectiveness of peer production networks for software development, and
specifically of the network of software developers debugging Mozilla’s
Firefox browser.
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Game of
Thrones
A series of short articles
exploring various facets of the evolving social network among the series’ characters, and the influence
of their positions in the network on their fates over Seasons 1-7 and in
Season 8. Articles are available here.
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Last modified August 2018
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