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Invited Lectures
 
2004 Governance aus der Perspektive der Soziologie. Deutsche Hochschule fuer Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer (Germany)
 
2002 Networks and Institutions. ISEG, Technical University Lisbon (Portugal)
 
2001 Networks and Reorganizations. Vista University, Johannesburg (South Africa)
 
1998 Causes and Consequences of Gossip. Department of Sociology, Cornell University (USA)
 
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Third Party Leverage and Informal Social Control in Organizations. Department of Sociology, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
International Congresses
 
2004 Structural Constraints or Management Overload? Determinants of Problem Intensity During Organizational Change Processes. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco (USA)
   
2004 The Interplay of Informal and Formal Power on Workplace Revenge. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans (USA)
   
2004 The Influence of Power on Inequalities in Co-Worker Cooperation: A Social Relations Analysis. International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Portoroz (Slovenia)
   
2004 Het aanvaarden van controleopdrachten door controlerend accountants: de invloed van de beheerstructuur op het nemen van professionele risico’s. Sociaal-wetenschappelijke studiedagen, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
   
2004 The Governance of Transition Processes in an Organization: A Cognitive Mapping Analysis. Sociaal-wetenschappelijke studiedagen, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
   
2003 Informal Networks and Oppositional Control in Organizations. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta (USA)
   
2003 Informal Governance and Solidarity in Organizations. International Conference on Rational Choice and Social Institutions, RC45 of the International Sociological Association, Fukuoka (Japan)
   
2002 Frame Decay, Informal Power and Social Escalation in a Management Team. World Congres of Sociology, International Sociological Assocation, Brisbane (Australia)
   
2000 "Social Capital, Gender, and Strategies of Informal Control in Organizations". Joint Conference of the Rational Choice Section of the American Sociological Association and the Research Committee on Rational Choice of the Inter-national Sociological Association, Washington (USA)
 

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1998 "Social Capital and Power Strategies in Organizations". 14th EGOS-Colloquium, Maastricht (The Netherlands)
   
1997 "Social Capital, Third Party Gossip, and Cooperation in Organizations." (with H. Hangyi, M. van Duijn en C. Carroll). PIONIER-Conference The Management of Durable Relationships, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
   
1997 "Strategies of Informal Social Control in Organizations. A Framing Per-spective." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto (Canada)
   
1996 "Managing Misbehavior at the Workplace. Effects of Normative, Structural and Temporal Embeddedness on Intraorganizational Cooperation" (samen met H. Hangyi and C. Carroll). Second Annual Conference of the Italian Academy of Management (AIDEA Giovani), Milan (Italy)
   
1996 "Meetings in Organizations. Some Structural Determinants of Scheduled Communication" (co-author of H. Hangyi). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Charleston (USA)
   
1996 "Rampant Remedies. Normative Bases of Informal Social Control in Organizations." Joint Conference of the Rational Choice Section of the American Sociological Association and the Research Committee on Rational Choice of the International Sociological Association, New York (USA)
   
1995 "Strategieën van informele sociale controle in organisaties." 7e sociaal-wetenschappelijke studiedagen, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
   
1995 "The Emergence of Trust within Organizations. Cultural, Structural and Institutional Approaches." Annual Social Networks Conference, London (UK)
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1992 "Zur Konvertibilität von Tauschmedien bei nicht-industrialisierten Gesellschaften." Symposium on Symbolic Exchange, Universiteit Salzburg (Austria)
   
1991 "Einführung in das Panel: Konfliktethnologie." Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ethnologie, München (Germany)
   
1991 "Structures of Trust. A Re-Examination of the Kula-Ring" Symposium Forms of Exchange and the Development of Market Economies. Nürnberg (Germany)
   
1991 "Coding Problems and the Uses of a Half-Text Database in Cross-Cultural Research". Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, San Juan (Puerto Rico)
   
1990 "Resource Competition and Violent Conflict Management." Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Claremont (USA)
   
1989 "Population Pressure, Scarcity and the Distributional Complex: Toward a Socioecological Explanation of Violent Conflict." DFG-Congres Theory Construction and Comparative Research on Violent Conflict in Third World Societies: Nomothetic Explanations vs. Ideographic Descriptions, Bonn (Germany)

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