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Jose Antonio Ruiz San Roman teaches sociology of communication and public opinion in the Sociology Department Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. His research interests include the effects of mass media in young people, mass media persuasion, and communitarianism in the work of Amitai Etzioni.

As a scholar, Miguel Llofriu is deeply connected to the core of SASE: he wrote his doctoral thesis on Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Modern Socio-Economics and of SASE (The Active Society, Socioeconomics and Responsive Communitarianism in the Thought of Amitai Etzioni: A Critical and Reconstructive Approach.) Dr. Llofriu is currently collaborating with Juan Antonio Sarmiento on Financial Communitarianism. He works on the topics of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and applied values. As teacher, he collaborates with the ESIC Business School and is an associated researcher at the ETNOR Foundation in Valencia, Spain. He also works with CSCE (México), a think tank that deals with socio-economic issues.

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is a University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America and a Fellow at St Antony's College. His research concentrates on state-society relations, income distribution and industrial upgrading in small Latin American countries—all topics that have been explored by members of our network at SASE. He is currently collaborating with Juliana Martínez Franzoni on a study of the social state in Costa Rica and is also working on a book that analyses the opportunities and constraints for the creation of a more equal development model in Central America in the current global era. Sanchez-Ancochea joined SASE in Copenhagen several years ago but became more involved in Costa Rica in 2008, when Andrew Schrank and then President Michael Piore invited him to coordinate the development network. Of the experience, he says, "It has been an exciting opportunity, which has given me a chance to participate in interesting debates on the intersection between economics, politics and inequality."

Aaron Major teaches sociology at the University at Albany, United States. His research focuses on the international institutions and organizations of economic cooperation and their effect on the economic policies of national states. He is particularly interested in understanding the kinds of organizational rules, institutional configurations and structural forces that give international investors and other financial interests the capacity to shape the development process.

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay is Canada Research Chair on the Knowledge Economy and professor of labor economics, innovation, and human resources at the Télé-Université of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests include employment policies, clusters (multimedia, IT, and film sectors) working time and work-life balance, telework, self-employment, work organization, teamwork, and communities of practice. Tremblay has been an active member of SASE for over twenty years, participating in all aspects of the organization. In addition to her work as a network organizer, she has also been a member of the Executive Council and the Local Organizing Committe for Montreal in 1997. "What I appreciate in SASE," says Tremblay, "is the diversity of issues that are discussed, and the interdisciplinary nature of the debates."

Tremblay also co-organizes Network L, SASE's French Language Network

Bernard Fusulier is a Senior Research Fellow at the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and a Professor of Sociology at l'Université catholique de Louvain, where he works at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Socialisation, Education and Training (GIRSEF). He sits on the board of several journals and directs the academic journal Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques. His main research interests include the relationship between gender, work and family; life course; sociology of work; sociology of organisation; and theoretical sociology (social transaction approach in particular). Of his involvement in SASE, he says: "In SASE I found an intellectual space highly complementary to the other sociological meetings I normally attend. SASE provides an opportunity to meet colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines, and to learn more about current research in areas of interest to me."

Fusulier also co-organizes Network L, SASE's French Language Network.

Didier Demazière specializes in unemployment and the unemployed and on occupational groups and professions. Most recently, his research has focused on the developpement of open source software, careers in the context of the football (soccer) labor market, and elected representatives' work. Demazière is also editor-in-chief of Sociologie du Travail, published by Elsevier.

Sabina Avdagic is a UK Research Councils (RCUK) academic fellow in the Department of Politics and Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Her research interests include comparative labor relations and welfare states, theories of institutional change and economic adjustment, and causes and consequences of social concertation. Most recently, her research has focused on the causes and effects of national variation in the strictness of employment protection in Europe. Avdagic has been actively involved in SASE activities since her graduate studies. In addition to her work as network organizer, she is also a member of the Executive Council and was Program Co-Chair of the 2007 conference in Copenhagen. "I am enthusiastic about SASE", she says, "because this is one of the rare academic associations that truly embraces interdisplinarity and methodological pluralism in the study of pertinent socio-economic problems facing contemporary societies."

Lucio Baccaro teaches sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is interested in the interaction of social and economic forces and in how such interaction shapes the norms that regulate contemporary capitalist societies, particularly in so far as labour markets and welfare states are concerned. A related interest of his is the emergence of new forms of democratic governance centring on participatory and deliberative institutions.

Dr. Becker-Ritterspach is assistant professor in international business and management at the University of Groningen,The Netherlands. His research interests include transfer and innovation of organizational forms and practices within multinational corporations, politics, power and intra-firm competition, and comparative organizational research. Becker-Ritterspach has organized Network F since 2008. He particularly values this involvement in SASE because it connects him to scholars who also adopt a critical perspective on international economics and business research.

Knut Lange is a University Lecturer in Innovation at the University of Surrey, UK. Knut's general research interests include the areas of innovation, institutions and networks. He has worked on innovations in the biotech and the semiconductor industry. Most recently, his research has focused on the diffusion of business models in the aviation industry. He is also a member of ICAROS, the International Consortium for Airline Research in Organization Studies.

Dr. Geny Piotti is researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Her research interests include organizational and institutional innovation, networks and innovation, local innovation clusters, multinationals and globalization, comparative capitalism. Her current research focus is on German firms in China.

David Marsden is a professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include comparative employment systems; international and comparative human resource management; incentives, rewards, and economic performance; and public management.

Gerhard Schnyder is a university lecturer in comparative management at King’s College London and research associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge and at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics (LCCGE). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008).

His current research focuses on comparative capitalism and comparative corporate governance. Gerhard is interested in the impact of institutional, political and historical factors on the organisation of national corporate governance and business systems. In particular, he investigates the interrelationship between legal and corporate changes and the role of agency in institutional change more broadly.

A senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK, David Bartram's primary research focuses on international migration. His current research connects migration and happiness, assessing the assumption that immigrants who move to a wealthy country are better for having done so, when "better off" is specified in terms of happiness.  Another strand uses happiness studies as a means for evaluating different approaches to immigrant integration policy.

Maritsa V. Poros teaches sociology at the City College of New York. She specializes in international migration. Other research interests include social networks, inequalities, race and ethnicity, and urban studies. Her work has addressed the role of migrant networks in shaping labor market processes, the formation and influence of ethnic communities, and migrant mobilization in southern Europe. Her book, Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London, was published in 2011 by Stanford University Press. She is also working on a research project on the formation and influence of ethnic communities in Chicago.

Alex Hicks writes regularly on theory and methodology in literature on advanced industrial welfare states and is currently investigating the partisan and interest politics of U.S. income inequality; and the impact of international financial institutions, economists, and INGOs on Latin American economic and social policy.  He is author of Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism (Winner of the 1998-99 best book award of the American Political Science Association),recent co-author (with Edwin Amenta) of Research Methods in the Study of Welfare States (Obinger, Pierson, Castles, and Leibfried, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States), and recent co-editor (with Lane Kenworthy)of  Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis: the Case of Employment Growth. He was inagugural co-editor (with David Marsden) of the Socioeconomic Review and is curently a fourth-time member of the editorial board of the American Sociological Review.) "For me as a U.S. social scientist," he says, "SASE opened an invaluable window onto the world of European social scientists working in the fields of economic sociology, political economy, and the economy and instituions. Interacting with SASE members from across the world is most exciting, as have been all of SASE's meeting places, fabled and newly discovered."

Isabelle Ferreras is a sociologist and political scientist. She is a tenured fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation (F.N.R.S., Brussels), associate professor at Louvain and senior research associate of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program. Isabelle's research aims at clarifying the potential contradictions between capitalism and democracy both from an empirical and a normative perspective. In particular, she writes on the multiple dimensions of work in the context of the service-based economy, as well as on capitalist legal institutions – the firm in particular.

Katherine Stone is a leading expert in labor and employment law in the United States. She teaches at UCLA School of Law in California. Most recently, her research had focused on the changing nature of employment and the regulatory implications. Her forthcoming book, Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employment Relationship in the 21st Century, will examine the changing employment landscape in Japan, Australia, and Europe.

Alvaro Santos is as an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches and writes in the areas of international trade, law and economic development, transnational labor law, and legal theory. He is author of The Word Bank's Uses of the "Rule of Law" Promise in Economic Development, in The New Law and Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge 2006), which he co-edited with David Trubek. Professor Santos serves on the editorial boards of the Law & Social Inquiry journal and the Law and Development Review.

Julimar da Silva Bichara es profesor del Departamento de Estructura Económica y Economía del Desarrollo de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, de las asignaturas de Política Laboral, Política Macroeconómica y Estructura Económica de España. Es doctor por la misma universidad y máster en Teoría Económica por la Universidad de Sao Paulo – Brasil. Sus áreas de investigación son la política laboral, negociación colectiva y desarrollo económico en América Latina. Ha publicado artículos en revistas españolas como América Latina Hoy, Revista de ICE, Política Exterior, Relaciones Laborales, Revista Trabajo, etc; e internacionales como Economia Aplicada, Economia e Sociedade (de Brasil) y Canadian Journal of Devolopment Studies y Latin American Research Review. También ha publicado, con Santos Ruesga, el libro "Análisis Económico de la Negociación Colectiva en España" y "Modelos de Desarrollo Económico de América Latina".

Julimar da Silva Bichara is professor of the Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He teaches about Labor Policy, Macroeconomics Policy and Economic Structure of Spain. His research areas are labor policy, collective bargaining and economic development in Latin America. He has published articles in the Canadian Journal of Devolopment, Latin American Research Review, Revista de Economía Mundial, América Latina Hoy, Política Exterior, Relaciones Laborales, Revista Trabajo (Spain), Economia Aplicada, Economia e Sociedade (Brazil). He has also published, with Santos Ruesga, the books "Análisis Económico de la Negociación Colectiva en España" and "Modelos de Desarrollo Económico de América Latina".

He is a professor in the Department of Sociology, at Northwestern University. His areas of research include historical and comparative sociology, economic sociology, sociology of law and sociology of organizations. Bruce has authored or co-authored five books, most recently Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press, 2010). His current research projects are on the evolution of credit decision-making as a problem in the sociology of trust, and the legal regulation of predatory lending in early 20th -century U.S.

She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is the author of Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (Stanford, 2008). Currently, she is pursuing two lines of research: analysis of emerging credit card markets in several emerging economies in Eastern Europe (with Akos Rona-Tas); and exploration into cultural meanings and economic values in the market for commercial surrogacy.

He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and a research associate at INRA, Paris. He is currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management. He has been a member of SASE since 2005.

He is a professor of Sociology and the director of the Center of Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University. His major ongoing research projects are: industrial upgrading, global production networks, and decent work in East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe; an ongoing collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund and other co-sponsors on low-carbon technologies and U.S. jobs; an analysis of food safety and quality standards in several global food and agricultural value chains; engineering outsourcing and workforce development in the US, China, and India; and using a value chain perspective to analyse the competitivenes of North Carolina industries in the global economy.

She is a professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University for Oxford. Her research focuses on the connection between global corporate strategy, comparative business systems and human resource management, and understanding how business enterprises are governed in different ways in different locations, with specific attention to human resources and supply chains.

He is the Peter Moores University Lecturer in Chinese Business Studies at Oxford's Saïd Business School. A political scientist by training, Thun's research focuses on issues of industrial development in China. He is the author Changing Lanes in China: Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments and Auto Sector Development. His current project analyzes the dynamics of competition between indigenous and foreign firms in China's domestic market.

He is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LL.M. Program at the University of Michigan Law School. He specializes in corporate and international taxation. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury and to the OECD on tax competition and is a member of the Steering Group of the OECD's International Network for Tax Research and chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on Tax Policy. He is co-editor of the journal Accounting, Economics and Law - A Convivium, published by The Berkeley Electronic Press

He is a tenured research fellow at the French National Institute of Research (CNRS), appointed to the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, and is affiliated professor of corporate governance, responsibility and reporting at the CNAM of Paris. His research focuses on connecting accounting, economics, and law, including economic theory and the analysis of international accounting convergence and financialization. He is co-editor of the journal Accounting, Economics and Law - A Convivium, published by The Berkeley Electronic Press.

He is the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research interests include financial reporting, dissemination of information in security markets, and statistical theory of valuation. A pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics, he has published five books and more than 160 scholarly articles. He is a Past President of the American Accounting Association. He is co-editor of the journal Accounting, Economics and Law - A Convivium, published by The Berkeley Electronic Press.

Christina Ahmadjian is a professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Her research interests include comparative corporate governance, interorganizational networks and business groups, the effect of global capital markets on local management practices, and the changing face of the Japanese firm. She received her BA from Harvard University, MBA from Stanford Business School, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Her publications have appeared in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

Tobias ten Brink is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne,
and teaches at the University of Frankfurt He has published on issues of Comparative and
International Political Economy. He has authored, among other publications, the monograph
‘Geopolitik. Geschichte und Gegenwart kapitalistischer Staatenkonkurrenz’, and edited the
previously unpublished Adorno lecture ‘Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft’. His
current research focuses on the political economy of China.

Sébastien Lechevalier is Associate Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS,
Paris). His research interests are inequalities, institutional change, and industrial economics, with a
particular focus on Japan. His publications include “Inter-firm heterogeneity: nature, sources and
consequences for industrial dynamics” (Special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change, 19 (6),
2010), and Capitalismes et néolibéralisme. Leçons japonaises (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011)

Cornelia Storz is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University
of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative institutional analysis,
institutional change, innovation systems and industry emergence with specific attention to Japan and
other Asian regimes. She is reviewer for Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Economics, Asian
Business and Management and others and co-author of Institutional Diversity and Innovation.
Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011) .

Boy Lüthje is Senior Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research and a visiting
scholar at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the political economy of
global production networks, innovation, and work. His interest in China and Southeast Asia
developed in the course of his research on global production and work in the IT industry during the
recent decade. He recently completed an extensive research project on regimes of production and
industrial relations in China’s manufacturing industries. Together with Tobias ten Brink and
Christopher McNally (East-West Center) he is conducting a major research project on China’s new
capitalism and its perspectives of economic and social re-balancing.

Dr. Santos Ruesga is a full professor of Applied Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has held positions around the world, including at Stanford and UC San Diego (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil) Erasmus de Rotterdam (Netherlands), Trento (Italy), Lima (Perú), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México). As a researcher in socio-economics he specializes in the study of industrial relations, the informal economy, and Latin American economies, from macroeconomic and empirical perspectives. On these topics he has published a large number of books and articles in academic and professional journals and magazines. He was a member of the High Council of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy for ten years (2000-2010) and is former vice-chancellor of Spain's Menendez Pelayo International University. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Spanish Public Broadcasting Corporation (Corporación RTVE).

Matt Allen teaches organization studies at Manchester Business School. His research interests cover the institutional structuring of innovation; employee relations and the development of technological competencies; and the creation of organizational capabilities within high-tech companies.