Strang, David

Professor

My current research focuses on the spread of management practices within the American business community. Projects include the preparation of a monograph that examines a global bank's benchmarking program, and analysis of the diffision and demise of a total quality program. Other work includes analysis of internationally based social entrepreneurship as an international phenomenon and the way it is organized around a "hero model" (with Mike Lounsbury), and research on the spread of municipal resolutions that seek to preserve civil liberties in the post 9/11 era (with Bogdan Vasi).

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Political Sociology

  • Organizations

  • Models and Methods for Dynamic Processes

  • Spread of Management Practices within the American Business Community

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

background

educational background

  • Ph.D., (Sociology), Stanford University, 1988 
  •  M.A., (Sociology),  Stanford University, 1984 
  •  B.A., (Sociology),   Harvard University, 1981

awards and distinctions

  • Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology,  Tel Aviv University, 1999.
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, 1998-9.
  • Visiting Professor, Amsterdam School for Social Research, University of Amsterdam,1995

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Chang Kil Lee and David Strang, ?The international diffusion of public sector downsizing.? Forthcoming, International Organization, August 2006.

  • Robert David and David Strang, ?When fashion is fleeting: transitory collective beliefs and the dynamics of TQM consulting.? Forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal, April 2006.

  • David Strang and Dong-Il Jung, "Organizational Change as an Orchestrated Social Movement: Recruitment to a Quality Initiative." In G.F. Davis, D.McAdam,W.R.Scott, and M.N.Zald, eds., Social Movements and Organization Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  • David Strang and Mary C. Still, "In Search of the Elite: Revising a Model of Adaptive Emulation with Evidence from Benchmarking Teams." Industrial and Corporate Change 13 (2004): 309-33.

  • David Strang and Young-Mi Kim, "Diffusion and Domestication of Managerial Innovations: The Spread of Scientific Management, Quality Circles, and TQM between the United States and Japan." Pp. 177-99 in S. Ackroyd, P. Thompson, P. Tolbert and R. Batt, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization. Oxford University Press, 2004.

  • David Strang, "The Diffusion of TQM within an Global Bank." Pp. 275-93 in J.A.C. Baum and O. Sorensen, eds., Geography and Strategy - Advances in Strategic Management 20. Elsevier/JAI Press, 2003.

  • Mary C. Still and David Strang, "Institutionalizing Family-Friendly Policies." Pp. 288-309 in P. Moen, ed., Its About Time: Couples and Careers. Cornell/ILR Press, 2003.

  • David Strang and Michael W. Macy, "In Search of Excellence: Fads, Success Stories, and Adaptive Emulation." American Journal of Sociology 107 (2001): 147-82.

  • Henrich R. Greve, Nancy B. Tuma, and David Strang, "Estimation of Diffusion Processes from Incomplete Data: A Simulation Study." Sociological Methods and Research, 29 (2001): 435-67.

  • David Strang and Ellen M. Bradburn, "Theorizing Legitimacy or Legitimating Theory? Neoliberal Discourse and HMO Policy, 1970-89." Pp. 129-58 in J.L. Campbell and O. Pedersen, eds., The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. Princeton University Press, 2001.

  • David Strang and Wesley D. Sine, "Inter-Organizational Institutions." Pp. 497-519 in J.A.C. Baum, ed., Companion to Organizations. Blackwell, 2001.

  • Michael W. Macy and David Strang, "Pluralistic Ignorance and the Top Secret Management Handbook: A Computational Model of Fashionable Innovation.." Pp. 93-118 in A. Lomi and E. Larsen, eds., Simulating Organizational Societies: Theories, Models and Ideas. MIT Press, 2001.

  • David Strang and Sarah A. Soule, "Diffusion in Organizations and Social Movements: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills." Annual Review of Sociology 24 (1998): 265-90.

  • Victor Nee and David Strang, "The Emergence and Diffusion of Institutional Forms." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 154 (1998): 706-15.

  • David Strang, "Contested Sovereignty: The Construction of Colonial Imperialism." Pp. 22-49 in C. Weber and T. Biersteker, eds., State Sovereignty as Social Construct. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

  • Henrich R. Greve, David Strang, and Nancy B. Tuma, "Specification and Estimation of Heterogeneous Diffusion Processes." Pp. 377-420 in P.V. Marsden, ed., Sociological Methodology 1995. Oxford: Blackwell.

  • David Strang, "Health Maintenance Organizations." Pp. 163-82 in G.R. Carroll and M.T. Hannan, eds., Organizations in Industry: Strategy, Structure, and Selection. Oxford University Press, 1995.

  • David Strang, "The New Institutionalism as a Form of Structural Analysis." Pp. 151-74 in C. Prendergast and J.D. Knottnerus, eds., Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure. JAI Press, 1994.

  • David Strang, "British and French Political Institutions and the Patterning of Decolonization." Pp. 278-95 in T. Janoski and A. Hicks, eds., The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  • David Strang, "Introduction to Event History Methods." Pp. 245-53 in T. Janoski and A. Hicks, eds., The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  • David Strang and Nancy B. Tuma, "Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion." American Journal of Sociology 99 (1993): 614-39.

  • David Strang and John W. Meyer, "Institutional Conditions for Diffusion." Theory and Society 22 (1993): 487-511.

  • David Strang and Patricia M.Y. Chang, "The International Labour Organisation and the Welfare State: Institutional Effects on National Welfare Spending, 1960-80." International Organization 47 (1993): 235- 62.

  • David Strang, "The Inner Incompatibility of Empire and Nation: Popular Sovereignty and Decolonization." Sociological Perspectives 35 (1992): 367-84.

  • David Strang, "Global Patterns of Decolonization 1500-1987." International Studies Quarterly 35 (1991): 429-54.

  • David Strang, "Anomaly and Commonplace in European Political Expansion: Realist and Institutional Accounts." International Organization 45 (1991): 143-62.

  • David Strang, "Adding Social Structure to Diffusion Models: An Event-History Framework." Sociological Methods and Research 19 (1991): 324-53.

  • David Strang, "From Dependency to Sovereignty: An Event History Analysis of Decolonization 1870-1987." American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 846-60.

  • David Strang and James N. Baron, "Categorical Imperatives: The Structure of Job Titles in California State Agencies." American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 479-95.

  • Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal and David Strang, "Construction of the First Mass Education Systems in Nineteenth Century Europe." Sociology of Education 62 (1989): 277-88.

  • John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott, David Strang, and Andrew L. Creighton, "Bureaucratization Without Centralization: Changes in the Organizational System of American Education, 1940-1980." Pp. 139-68 in L.G. Zucker, ed., Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment. Ballinger, 1988.

  • David Strang, "The Administrative Transformation of American Education: School District Consolidation 1938-1980." Administrative Science Quarterly 32 (1987): 352-66.

  • John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott, and David Strang, "Centralization, Fragmentation, and School District Complexity." Administrative Science Quarterly 32 (1987): 186-201.