University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 

Robert Faulkner

Education and Interests

(Ph.D., UCLA 1968)

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

Selected Publications

  • 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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