Stephen Lippmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 289887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Lippmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lippmann |
| SIGNATURE | LIPPMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“How did the ‘stories that never end’ end? Institutional concentration and the decline of the U.S. soap opera industry.”
Using a comprehensive data set containing organizational histories of all television soap operas that aired in the United States from 1949 to 2012, we focus on endogenous institutional dynamics that ultimately led to the dramatic decline of the once thriving form. Specifically, we focus on the rise of “institutionally central” soap operas that gave legitimacy to the form. We show that these soap operas, more than others, led to both the dramatic …
Unemployment, Reemployment, and Health Insurance Status Among Older Workers in the Flexible Labor Market
As employment becomes more precarious, and spells of displacement become more common across the labor market, many individuals are forced to make decisions about the speed at which they seek reemployment and the types of employment they will seek. Using repeated cross-sectional data from various years of the Displaced Worker Supplement of the Current Population Survey, we examine the degree to which employer-provided health insurance and organiza…
The Timing of Childbirth and Family-to-Work Conflict
A growing pattern, assumed to reflect efforts to balance work and family, is the delaying of childbirth by some working women. This article examines the relationship between the timing of fertility and family-to-work conflict among working women, and the occupational, organizational, and family contexts that influence this relationship. We analyze data from the 2002 wave of the National Study of the Changing Workforce to determine if, to what deg…
Workplace Flexibility
Local Labor Market Dynamics and Self-Employment in Rural New England
As rates of self-employment and entrepreneurial activity grow in the U.S., sociologists are beginning to consider the causes and consequences of this form of employment more seriously. While the sociological contributions to entrepreneurial research take seriously the social context in which self-employment occurs, few studies focus explicitly on the effects of social and economic contexts on rates of self-employment in particular regions. I fill…
Rationalization, Standardization, or Market Diversity
The “golden age” of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s was dominated by large, national broadcasting networks. The rise of these networks is thought to have been accompanied by a dramatic decline in the number of locally oriented stations in operation in the United States. However, this presumption contradicts the dynamics of concentration and organizational foundings in a variety of other industries. In this article I use comprehensive da…
Rethinking risk in the new economy
One of the major risks associated with flexible employment in the new economy is that of sudden and involuntary unemployment. The risk of involuntary unemployment, or displacement, has become widespread in the new economy, threatening workers across firms, occupations and industries. While most workers now face the risk of displacement, some appear better able to negotiate and navigate the flexible labor market that characterizes the `new' econom…
Do displaced workers lose occupational prestige
The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber
Today's students have grown up in a world structured by forces of rationalization, making it difficult for them to comprehend scope and magnitude of transformations Weber described. In this paper, we outline a plan for helping students appreciate Weber's theoretical achievements, as well as teaching them to think more critically about what constitutes the good in rationalized societies. We use Ritzer's best-selling book The McDonaldization of Soc…
Rethinking risk in the new economy
One of the major risks associated with flexible employment in the new economy is that of sudden and involuntary unemployment. The risk of involuntary unemployment, or displacement, has become widespread in the new economy, threatening workers across firms, occupations and industries. While most workers now face the risk of displacement, some appear better able to negotiate and navigate the flexible labor market that characterizes the `new' econom…
Workplace Flexibility
The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber
Today's students have grown up in a world structured by forces of rationalization, making it difficult for them to comprehend scope and magnitude of transformations Weber described. In this paper, we outline a plan for helping students appreciate Weber's theoretical achievements, as well as teaching them to think more critically about what constitutes the good in rationalized societies. We use Ritzer's best-selling book The McDonaldization of Soc…
The Timing of Childbirth and Family-to-Work Conflict
A growing pattern, assumed to reflect efforts to balance work and family, is the delaying of childbirth by some working women. This article examines the relationship between the timing of fertility and family-to-work conflict among working women, and the occupational, organizational, and family contexts that influence this relationship. We analyze data from the 2002 wave of the National Study of the Changing Workforce to determine if, to what deg…
Do displaced workers lose occupational prestige
Local Labor Market Dynamics and Self-Employment in Rural New England
As rates of self-employment and entrepreneurial activity grow in the U.S., sociologists are beginning to consider the causes and consequences of this form of employment more seriously. While the sociological contributions to entrepreneurial research take seriously the social context in which self-employment occurs, few studies focus explicitly on the effects of social and economic contexts on rates of self-employment in particular regions. I fill…
The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber
Today's students have grown up in a world structured by forces of rationalization, making it difficult for them to comprehend scope and magnitude of transformations Weber described. In this paper, we outline a plan for helping students appreciate Weber's theoretical achievements, as well as teaching them to think more critically about what constitutes the good in rationalized societies. We use Ritzer's best-selling book The McDonaldization of Soc…
Rationalization, Standardization, or Market Diversity
The “golden age” of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s was dominated by large, national broadcasting networks. The rise of these networks is thought to have been accompanied by a dramatic decline in the number of locally oriented stations in operation in the United States. However, this presumption contradicts the dynamics of concentration and organizational foundings in a variety of other industries. In this article I use comprehensive da…
Rethinking risk in the new economy
One of the major risks associated with flexible employment in the new economy is that of sudden and involuntary unemployment. The risk of involuntary unemployment, or displacement, has become widespread in the new economy, threatening workers across firms, occupations and industries. While most workers now face the risk of displacement, some appear better able to negotiate and navigate the flexible labor market that characterizes the `new' econom…
Do displaced workers lose occupational prestige
Local Labor Market Dynamics and Self-Employment in Rural New England
As rates of self-employment and entrepreneurial activity grow in the U.S., sociologists are beginning to consider the causes and consequences of this form of employment more seriously. While the sociological contributions to entrepreneurial research take seriously the social context in which self-employment occurs, few studies focus explicitly on the effects of social and economic contexts on rates of self-employment in particular regions. I fill…
Workplace Flexibility
The Timing of Childbirth and Family-to-Work Conflict
A growing pattern, assumed to reflect efforts to balance work and family, is the delaying of childbirth by some working women. This article examines the relationship between the timing of fertility and family-to-work conflict among working women, and the occupational, organizational, and family contexts that influence this relationship. We analyze data from the 2002 wave of the National Study of the Changing Workforce to determine if, to what deg…
Unemployment, Reemployment, and Health Insurance Status Among Older Workers in the Flexible Labor Market
As employment becomes more precarious, and spells of displacement become more common across the labor market, many individuals are forced to make decisions about the speed at which they seek reemployment and the types of employment they will seek. Using repeated cross-sectional data from various years of the Displaced Worker Supplement of the Current Population Survey, we examine the degree to which employer-provided health insurance and organiza…
“How did the ‘stories that never end’ end? Institutional concentration and the decline of the U.S. soap opera industry.”
Using a comprehensive data set containing organizational histories of all television soap operas that aired in the United States from 1949 to 2012, we focus on endogenous institutional dynamics that ultimately led to the dramatic decline of the once thriving form. Specifically, we focus on the rise of “institutionally central” soap operas that gave legitimacy to the form. We show that these soap operas, more than others, led to both the dramatic …
Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Unemployment (4 works)