UMass Sesquicentennial
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 

Robert Faulkner

Robert Faulkner

Education and Interests

(Ph.D., UCLA 1968)

Curriculum Vitae

Business and Professions, Markets, Careers, Corporate Crime, Qualitative Methods.

Selected Publications

  • "Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action 2009 (University of Chicago Press). with Howards S. Becker.
  • Art From Start to Finish. 2005 (University of Chicago Press). With Howard S. Becker.
  • "Repertoire de Jazz" Sociologie de l'art. 2005. Paris. With Howard S. Becker.
  • "Hazards of The Market," with Wayne E. Baker and Gene Fisher, American Sociological Review, 63(2):147-177. 1998.
  • "Role as Resource in the Hollywood Film Industry," 1994 American Journal of Sociology.
  • "The Dynamics of Role Enactment," with G. M. Platt and C. Gordon, in Self, Collective Behavior and Society: Essays Honoring The Contributions of Ralph H. Turner, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994, Pp. 235-248. 
  • "The Social Organization of Conspiracy: Illegal Networks in The Heavy Electrical Equipment Industry," American Sociological Review, 1993. (Winner of The Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.) 
  • "Strategies for Managing Suppliers of Professional Services," California Management Review, 1992. 
  • "Organizational Cognition in a Jazz Ensemble," with John Voyeur in Empirical Studies of the Arts, 7: 57-77. Reprinted in Proceedings of The Academy of Management. 1986. Winner of Best Paper Award. 
  • Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry, Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. 1983.
  • "Dilemmas In Commercial Work: Hollywood Film Composers and Their Clients," 1976.
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