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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Josh Whitford is an American sociologist and an associate professor at Columbia University. He writes on economic sociology and organizations. Biography Whitford was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the son of University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Professor William Whitford. Whitford attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.A. in math and Italian in 1993, an M.A. in sociology in 1998 with a thesis "Dewey, Parsons, and means-to-ends", and a Ph.D. in sociology in 2003. In 2003 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. In 2004 he joined the faculty at Columbia University as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2010. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Center on Organizational Innovation. In February 2007, he was named an Industry Studies Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Pragmatism and the untenable dualism of means and ends: Why rational choice theory does not deserve paradigmatic privilege (2002) (182)
The decline of a model? Challenge and response in the Italian industrial districts (2001) (135)
The Anatomy of Network Failure* (2011) (120)
Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland. By Dan Breznitz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+262. $45.00. (2008) (116)
Industrial Policy in the United States: A Neo-Polanyian Interpretation (2009) (79)
The New Old Economy (2005) (72)
Surviving the Fall of a King: The Regional Institutional Implications of Crisis at Fiat Auto (2005) (64)
Governing Decentralized Production: Institutions, Public Policy, and the Prospects for Inter-firm Collaboration in US Manufacturing (2004) (57)
Regional economies, open networks and the spatial fragmentation of production (2007) (50)
The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing (2006) (49)
Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy (2018) (44)
Pragmatism, Practice, and the Boundaries of Organization (2014) (28)
Waltzing, Relational Work, and the Construction (or Not) of Collaboration in Manufacturing Industries* (2012) (23)
The Network Firm as a Political Coalition (2016) (18)
Brokerage and Boots on the Ground: Complements or Substitutes in the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships? (2018) (9)
Fixing network failures? The contested case of the American Manufacturing Extension Partnership (2016) (9)
Innovation, generative relationships and scaffolding structures. Implications of a complexity perspective to innovation for public and private interventions (2010) (9)
Industrial districts in a globalizing world: A model to change or a model of change? - Materiali di discussione del Dipartimento di Economia Politica (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), n. 615 (2009) (8)
OEM-Supplier Relationships and the Wisconsin Manufacturing Partnership’s Supplier Training Consortium (2000) (7)
Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy (2019) (7)
Diversified Quality Production 2.0: on Arndt Sorge and Wolfgang Streeck, ‘Diversified quality production re-visited: Its contribution to German socioeconomic performance over time’ (2018) (7)
The (Vertical) Network Firm as a Political Coalition: The Reorganization of Fiat Auto (2009) (5)
Varieties of Network Failure (2007) (4)
Innovative interventions in support of innovation networks. A complex system perspective to public innovation policy and private technology brokering (2009) (4)
Network Failures and Innovation in the New Old Economy (2012) (3)
[Book Review] Berger, Suzanne: How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy (New York: Doubleday, 2005): Panel at the SASE 2008 Annual Meeting, San José, Costa Rica (2009) (2)
Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective (2013) (2)
The Decentralization of American Manufacturing (2005) (1)
LEVERAGING MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE: A SUPPLIER STRATEGY FOR WISCONSIN (2002) (1)
Lessons from Industrial Districts for Historically Fordist Regions (2009) (0)
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism: Book Talk (2014) (0)
From Organization to Organizing: Mobilization and the Evolution of Vertical Production Networks (2011) (0)
Freedom and Uncertainty in a Complex Society: Why Karl Polanyi Was – Well, Should be – a Deweyan Pragmatist (2015) (0)
It Couldn't Happen Here? Public Policy, Regional Institutions, and Interfirm Collaboration in the United States (2005) (0)
Conflict and Collaboration in Business Organization: A Preliminary Study (2011) (0)
Explaining inter-firm dynamics: the network firm as a political coalition (2009) (0)
Toward the Relational Reconstruction of Regional Political Economy (2005) (0)
Ákos Róna-Tas and Alya Guseva, 2014, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries, Stanford University Press (2016) (0)
Putting Economic Sociology into Public Practice (2004) (0)
A New Production Paradigm for a New Old Economy (2005) (0)
Uncertainty and Contradiction in the New Old Economy (2005) (0)
Tools to Build Ties (2012) (0)
Collaboration in Practice: The Cost Reduction (Incremental Innovation) Waltz (2005) (0)
Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change. By Dan Krier. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp xi+315. $89.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
Networks, Noise, and Institutional Change (2005) (0)

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