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2016
Jung, Jiwook, and Frank Dobbin. 2016. “Agency Theory as Prophecy: How Boards, Analysts, and Fund Managers Perform Their Roles”. Seattle University Law Review 39:291-320. pdf
2015
Dobbin, Frank, and Shawna Vican. 2015. “Organizations and Culture”. Pp. 390-396 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Dobbin, Frank. 2015. “Review of Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique”. American Journal of Sociology 121 (1):318-320. pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Jiwook Jung. 2015. “The Social Construction of Interest in the New Economic Sociology”. Pp. 174-194 in Re-Imagining Economic Sociology, edited by P. Aspers and N. Dodd. London: Oxford University Press.
Dobbin, Frank, Daniel Schrage, and Alexandra Kalev. 2015. “Rage against the Iron Cage: The Varied Effects of Bureaucratic Personnel Reforms on Diversity”. American Sociological Review 80 (5):1014-1044. pdf
2014
Gershenson, Carl, and Frank Dobbin. 2014. “Institutions and the Economy”. in Emerging Trends in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, edited by R Scott and S Kosslyn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons. pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2014. “Why Firms Need Diversity Managers and Task Forces”. Pp. 170-198 in How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation, edited by M. Pilati, H. Sheikh, C. Tilly, and F. Sperotti. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pdf
Jung, J, and F Dobbin. 2014. “Finance and Institutional Investors”. Pp. 52-74 in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance, edited by K K.Cetina and A Preda. Oxford: Cambridge University Press. pdf
2013
F.Dobbin,. 2013. “Review of Nancy Plankey-Videla, We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm”. Administrative Science Quarterly 59 (1):184-86. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2013. “Review of Virginia Doellgast, Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy”. Administrative Science Quarterly 58 (1):152-154. pdf
Dobbin, F, and A Kalev. 2013. “The Origins and Effects of Corporate Diversity Programs”. Pp. 253-281 in Oxford Handbook of Diversity and Work, edited by QM Roberson. New York: Oxford University Press. pdf
2012
Dobbin, F. 2012. “A Sociology of Institutions: Review of Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank: The Political Construction of Business Interests”. Council for European Studies, Reviews and Critical Commentary Fall (December 10, 2012). Article
S.Kim,, A Kalev, and F Dobbin. 2012. “Progressive Corporations at Work: The Case of Diversity Programs”. Review of Law and Social Change 36 (2):171-213. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2012. “Review of J.C. Sharman, The Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy”. American Journal of Sociology 118 (3):850-852. pdf
Kim, S, and F Dobbin. 2012. “Industrial Policy”. in Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D Teece and M Augier. London: Palgrave.
Dobbin, F. 2012. “Review of Greta Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance”. Trajectories (Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association) 23 (2):2-4. pdf
2011
F.Dobbin,, S.Kim, and A. Kalev. 2011. “You Can't Always Get What You Need : Organizational Determinants of Diversity Programs”. American Sociological Review 76 (3):386. pdf.
Dobbin, F. 2011. “Bankruptcy Without Borders, Review Essay on Terrence Halliday and Bruce Carruthers, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis”. Contemporary Sociology 40 (2):137-140. pdf
F.Dobbin,, and J. Jung. 2011. “Corporate Board Gender Diversity and Stock Performance: The Competence Gap or Institutional Investor Bias?”. North Carolina Law Review 89 (3):809-838. pdf

Reprinted in Corporate Justice. Todd J. Clark and Andrew Douglas Pond Cummings. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. Forthcoming, 2016.

2010
Dobbin, F, and J Jung. 2010. “The Misapplication of Mr. Michael Jensen: How Agency Theory Brought Down the Economy and Why it Might Again”. Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) 30B:29-64. pdf

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