J Owen-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 19885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Owen-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Owen-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | OWEN-SMITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8007-1121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Identifying Natural Alignments Between Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Local Health Systems
OBJECTIVE: To develop and compare methods for identifying natural alignments between ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals that anchor local health systems. MEASURES: Using all-payer data from Florida's State Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient Databases (2005-2009), we developed 3 methods for identifying alignments between ASCS and hospitals. The first, a geographic proximity approach, used spatial data to assign an ASC to its nearest hos…
Network effects on organizational decision-making
Differences Between Physician Social Networks for Cardiac Surgery Serving Communities With High Versus Low Proportions of Black Residents
BACKGROUND: Compared with white patients, black patients are more likely to undergo cardiac surgery at low-quality hospitals, even when they live closer to high-quality ones. Opportunities for organizational interventions to alleviate this problem remain elusive. OBJECTIVES: To explore physician isolation in communities with high proportions of black residents as a factor contributing to racial disparities in access to high-quality hospitals for …
Democracy Is Working
Expand and Regularize Federal Funding for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
The institutionalization of expertise in university licensing
Innovaton and Emulation
Dockets, Deals, and Sagas
University Technology Licensing Offices (TLOs) are strategic sites for examining efforts to concretize, frame, and market early stage technologies. This paper draws on 18 months of fieldwork in a private university TLO to analyze collective decision-making efforts during licensing meetings. I describe three processes - docket description, deal framing, and problem resolution - that highlight the central roles that locally sensible strategies and …
The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, Get access Joyce Owen-Smith Joyce Owen-Smith Licensed Master Social Worker (USA) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 35, Issue 6, September 2005, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch334 Published: 01 September 2005
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution
A recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences. Four alternative logics of attachment - accumulative advantage, homophily, follow-the-trend, and multiconnectivity-are tested to explain the structure and dynamics of interorganizational collaboration in biotechnology. Using multiple novel methods, the authors demonstrate how different rul…
Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits
We contend that two important, nonrelational, features of formal interorganizational networks—geographic propinquity and organizational form—fundamentally alter the flow of information through a network. Within regional economies, contractual linkages among physically proximate organizations represent relatively transparent channels for information transfer because they are embedded in an ecology rich in informal and labor market transmission mec…
Carrières et contradictions en sciences de la vie
Sur la base d’une enquête empirique auprès de chercheurs de deux campus universitaires, les auteurs proposent de rendre compte de l’influence des évolutions des sciences de la vie sur les carrières et les pratiques académiques. La préoccupation croissante des universitaires à l’égard de la commercialisation de la recherche est à l’origine de lignes de clivage inédites et de nouveaux critères de reconnaissance. Ces évolutions sont le produit d’opp…
Standing on Shifting Terrain
Drawing on interviews with more than 80 scientists on two university campuses, we create a typology that offers insights into how transformations in the nature and locus of life science innovation influence academic careers and work practices. Our analyses suggest that a strong outcome of increased academic concern with research commercialisation is the appearance of new fault lines among faculty, between faculty and students, and even between sc…
Critically Constituting Organization
Managing Laboratory Work through Skepticism
Laboratory ethnographies are the shop-floor studies of the knowledge economy. Observational data from 11 months of fieldwork in a multidisciplinary neuroscience lab suggest that scientific skepticism, long understood as an evaluative mechanism, also serves social control and monitoring functions. The author applies insights from organization theory, social psychology, science studies, and the sociology of science to demonstrate that skepticism is…
Universities and the market for intellectual property in the life sciences
The realms of science and technology in the life sciences are converging through the commercialization of university research. Major changes in the mandate of research universities were facilitated by both federal legislation that has promoted technology transfer, and the increased reliance of business firms on university research and development (R&D). This article discusses the primary factors that are blurring the division of labor between ind…
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution
A recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences. Four alternative logics of attachment - accumulative advantage, homophily, follow-the-trend, and multiconnectivity-are tested to explain the structure and dynamics of interorganizational collaboration in biotechnology. Using multiple novel methods, the authors demonstrate how different rul…
Managing Laboratory Work through Skepticism
Laboratory ethnographies are the shop-floor studies of the knowledge economy. Observational data from 11 months of fieldwork in a multidisciplinary neuroscience lab suggest that scientific skepticism, long understood as an evaluative mechanism, also serves social control and monitoring functions. The author applies insights from organization theory, social psychology, science studies, and the sociology of science to demonstrate that skepticism is…
Innovaton and Emulation
Dockets, Deals, and Sagas
University Technology Licensing Offices (TLOs) are strategic sites for examining efforts to concretize, frame, and market early stage technologies. This paper draws on 18 months of fieldwork in a private university TLO to analyze collective decision-making efforts during licensing meetings. I describe three processes - docket description, deal framing, and problem resolution - that highlight the central roles that locally sensible strategies and …
The institutionalization of expertise in university licensing
Carrières et contradictions en sciences de la vie
Sur la base d’une enquête empirique auprès de chercheurs de deux campus universitaires, les auteurs proposent de rendre compte de l’influence des évolutions des sciences de la vie sur les carrières et les pratiques académiques. La préoccupation croissante des universitaires à l’égard de la commercialisation de la recherche est à l’origine de lignes de clivage inédites et de nouveaux critères de reconnaissance. Ces évolutions sont le produit d’opp…
Universities and the market for intellectual property in the life sciences
The realms of science and technology in the life sciences are converging through the commercialization of university research. Major changes in the mandate of research universities were facilitated by both federal legislation that has promoted technology transfer, and the increased reliance of business firms on university research and development (R&D). This article discusses the primary factors that are blurring the division of labor between ind…
Managing Laboratory Work through Skepticism
Laboratory ethnographies are the shop-floor studies of the knowledge economy. Observational data from 11 months of fieldwork in a multidisciplinary neuroscience lab suggest that scientific skepticism, long understood as an evaluative mechanism, also serves social control and monitoring functions. The author applies insights from organization theory, social psychology, science studies, and the sociology of science to demonstrate that skepticism is…
Standing on Shifting Terrain
Drawing on interviews with more than 80 scientists on two university campuses, we create a typology that offers insights into how transformations in the nature and locus of life science innovation influence academic careers and work practices. Our analyses suggest that a strong outcome of increased academic concern with research commercialisation is the appearance of new fault lines among faculty, between faculty and students, and even between sc…
Critically Constituting Organization
Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits
We contend that two important, nonrelational, features of formal interorganizational networks—geographic propinquity and organizational form—fundamentally alter the flow of information through a network. Within regional economies, contractual linkages among physically proximate organizations represent relatively transparent channels for information transfer because they are embedded in an ecology rich in informal and labor market transmission mec…
Carrières et contradictions en sciences de la vie
Sur la base d’une enquête empirique auprès de chercheurs de deux campus universitaires, les auteurs proposent de rendre compte de l’influence des évolutions des sciences de la vie sur les carrières et les pratiques académiques. La préoccupation croissante des universitaires à l’égard de la commercialisation de la recherche est à l’origine de lignes de clivage inédites et de nouveaux critères de reconnaissance. Ces évolutions sont le produit d’opp…
Dockets, Deals, and Sagas
University Technology Licensing Offices (TLOs) are strategic sites for examining efforts to concretize, frame, and market early stage technologies. This paper draws on 18 months of fieldwork in a private university TLO to analyze collective decision-making efforts during licensing meetings. I describe three processes - docket description, deal framing, and problem resolution - that highlight the central roles that locally sensible strategies and …
The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, Get access Joyce Owen-Smith Joyce Owen-Smith Licensed Master Social Worker (USA) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 35, Issue 6, September 2005, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch334 Published: 01 September 2005
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution
A recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences. Four alternative logics of attachment - accumulative advantage, homophily, follow-the-trend, and multiconnectivity-are tested to explain the structure and dynamics of interorganizational collaboration in biotechnology. Using multiple novel methods, the authors demonstrate how different rul…
Innovaton and Emulation
The institutionalization of expertise in university licensing
Democracy Is Working
Expand and Regularize Federal Funding for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
Network effects on organizational decision-making
Differences Between Physician Social Networks for Cardiac Surgery Serving Communities With High Versus Low Proportions of Black Residents
BACKGROUND: Compared with white patients, black patients are more likely to undergo cardiac surgery at low-quality hospitals, even when they live closer to high-quality ones. Opportunities for organizational interventions to alleviate this problem remain elusive. OBJECTIVES: To explore physician isolation in communities with high proportions of black residents as a factor contributing to racial disparities in access to high-quality hospitals for …
Identifying Natural Alignments Between Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Local Health Systems
OBJECTIVE: To develop and compare methods for identifying natural alignments between ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals that anchor local health systems. MEASURES: Using all-payer data from Florida's State Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient Databases (2005-2009), we developed 3 methods for identifying alignments between ASCS and hospitals. The first, a geographic proximity approach, used spatial data to assign an ASC to its nearest hos…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Commercialization (4 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 works)