Research & Publications

Authenticity — Why it is Sought, How it is Achieved

• "Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art.” Hahl, Oliver, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, and Minjae Kim. American Sociological Review Vol. 82, No. 4 (2017) 828-856.
• "The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth About Political Illigitimacy." Contributors:  Oliver Hahal, Minjae Kim, Ezra W. Zuckerman
• "The Denigration of Heroes? How the Status Attainment Process Shapes Attributions of Considerateness and Authenticity." Hahl, Oliver, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 120, No. 2 (2014): 504-554.

Classification/ Categorization in Markets

• • “The Categorical Imperative Revisited.” Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads, 31-68. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2017.
  • “Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms.” Phillips, Damon, Catherine Turco and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 118, No. 4 (2013): 1025-54.
  • "Typecasting and Generalism in Firm and Market: Genre-Based Career Concentration in the Feature-Film Industry, 1933-1995." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Transformation in Cultural Industries Vol. 23, edited by Candace Jones and Patricia Thornton, 171-214. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, December 2005.
  • "Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Sociological Review Vol. 69, No. 3 (2004): 405-432.
  • "Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Comovement and the Internet Stock Phenomenon." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, and Hayagreeva Rao. Industrial and Corporate Change Vol. 13, No. 1 (2004): 171-213.
  • "Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa and James von Rittmann. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 108, No. 5 (2003): 1018-1075.
  • "The Critical Trade-Off: Identity Assignment and Box-Office Success in the Feature Film Industry." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, and Tai-Young Kim. Industrial and Corporate Change Vol. 12, No. 1 (2003): 27-67.
  • "Middle Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets." Phillips, Damon J., and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 107, No. 2 (2001): 379-429.
  • "Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-Diversification." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3 (2000): 591-619.
  • "The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 104, No. 5 (1999): 1398-1438.
  • "Mediating the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and the Scope of the Firm." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1997.

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Conformity, Differentiation, and Deviance

Corporate Strategy

• • “Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms.” Phillips, Damon, Catherine Turco, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 118, No. 4 (2013): 1025-54.
  • "Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-Diversification." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3 (2000): 591-619.
  • "The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 104, No. 5 (1999): 1398-1438.
  • "Mediating the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and the Scope of the Firm." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1997.

Cultural Expression and Fashion

Financial Markets

• • “So You Think You Can Dance: Lessons from the U.S. Private Equity Bubble.” Turco, Catherine, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Sociological Science Vol. 1 (2014): 81-101.
  • "Market Efficiency: A Sociological Perspective." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Oxford Handbook on the Sociology of Finance, edited by Karin Knorr-Cetina and Alex Preda, 223-249. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • “What if we had been in charge? The sociologist as builder of rational institutions.” Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the US Financial Crisis: Part B, edited by Michael Lounsbury and Paul M. Hirsch. UK: July 2010.
  • "Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Sociological Review Vol. 69, No. 3 (2004): 405-432.
  • "Comment: Towards the Social Reconstruction of an Interdisciplinary Turf War." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Sociological Review Vol. 69, No. 3 (2004): 458-465.
  • "Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Comovement and the Internet Stock Phenomenon." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, and Hayagreeva Rao. Industrial and Corporate Change Vol. 13, No. 1 (2004): 171-213.
  • "Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-Diversification." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3 (2000): 591-619.
  • "The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 104, No. 5 (1999): 1398-1438.
  • "Mediating the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and the Scope of the Firm." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1997.

Identity - Definition, social foundations; how it both affects actions and is affected by it

Rationality and irrationality, Function and dysfunction

• • “Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment in an Industry Peer Network.” Sgourev, Stoyan V. and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Rationality and Society Vol. 23, No. 1 (2011): 3-34.
  • "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Azoulay, Pierre, Nelson P. Repenning and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 3 (2010): 472-507.
  • "Bringing (Crude) Functionalism Back In." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology, 2003.

Labor Markets, Typecasting as a mechanism driving wedge between skill and position

Learning (and lack thereof) - within organizations, via the market, via institutions that correct for the market's weaknesses

Production of Culture (Hollywood)

• • "Do Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1935-1995." Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. 2006.
  • "Typecasting and Generalism in Firm and Market: Genre-Based Career Concentration in the Feature-Film Industry, 1933-1995." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Transformation in Cultural Industries Vol. 23, edited by Candace Jones and Patricia Thornton, 171-214. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, December 2005.
  • "Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa and James von Rittmann. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 108, No. 5 (2003): 1018-1075.

Social Networks, general

Social Networks, the advantages and disavantages of various positions and configurations

Social Networks, how economic activity is "embedded" in strong ties

• • "In Either Market or Hierarchy, but Not in Both Simultaneously: Where Strong Ties Are Found in the Economy." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks, Volume 40, edited by Daniel Brass, Giuseppe Labianca, Ajay Mehra, Daniel Halgin, and Stephen P. Borgatti, 111-134. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, February 2014.
  • “Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment in an Industry Peer Network.” Sgourev, Stoyan V., and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Rationality and Society Vol. 23, No. 1 (2011): 3-34.
  • "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Azoulay, Pierre, Nelson P. Repenning, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 3 (2010): 472-507.
  • "Embeddedness for Control, for Compatibility, or by Constraint? Within-Network Exchange in the Selection of Home Remodelers." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Working Paper. 2010.
  • "Peer Capitalism: Parallel Relationships in the U.S. Economy." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, and Stoyan V. Sgourev. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 111, No. 5 (2006): 1327-1366.
  • "Do Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1935-1995." Ezra Zuckerman Sivan.
  • "On Networks and Markets by Rauch and Casella, eds." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 41, No. 2 (2003): 545-565.

Social status - logic of advantage and morality-based disadvantage to high status

Theory of the firm/formal organization (as distinct from markets and other institutions)

• • "The Problems and Promise of Hierarchy: A Sociological Theory of the Firm." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman, and Robert Freeland, Working Paper. 2014.
  • "In Either Market or Hierarchy, but Not in Both Simultaneously: Where Strong Ties Are Found in the Economy." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks, Volume 40, edited by Daniel Brass, Giuseppe Labianca, Ajay Mehra, Daniel Halgin, and Stephen P. Borgatti, 111-134. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, February 2014.
  • "Speaking with One Voice: A ‘Stanford School’ Approach to Organizational Hierarchy.” Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations, edited by Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Frank Dobbin, 289-307. UK: April 2010.
  • "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Azoulay, Pierre, Nelson P. Repenning, and Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 3 (2010): 472-507.
  • "Do Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1935-1995." Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman.

Team diversity and productivity

• • "On Firmer Ground: The Collaborative Team as Strategic Research Site for Verifying Network-Based Social Capital Hypotheses." Reagans, Ray E., Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, and Bill McEvily. In Missing Links: Formation and Decay of Economic Networks, edited by James E. Rauch, 148-182. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
  • "How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Projects in a Contract R&D Firm." Reagans, Ray, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, and Bill McEvily. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 49, No. 1 (2004): 101-133.
  • "Networks, Diversity, and Productivity: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Units." Reagans, Ray E., and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Organization Science Vol. 12, No. 4 (2001): 502-517.