Publications

1993
Dobbin, F. 1993. “The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France”. Theory and Society 22:1-56. pdf
Dobbin, Frank, John R. Sutton, John W. Meyer, and W. Richard Scott. 1993. “Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets”. American Journal of Sociology 99 (2):396-427. pdf

Reprinted: Foundations of Employment Discrimination. JJ. Donohue III. Albandy, NY: Matthew Bender. 2013

Reprinted: Institutional Theory in Organization Studies.  Edited by R. Greenwood, K. Sahlin, R. Suddaby, and C. Oliver. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2012

Reprinted: Pp. 272-300 in Institutional Environments and Organizations.  Edited by W.R. Scott and J.W. Meyer, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1994

Reprinted (in Chinese): Pp. 201-227 in The New Institutionalism in Organizational Sociology. Edited by Xueguang Zhou.

1992
Dobbin, F. 1992. “Review of John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg, eds., Governance of the American Economy”. Contemporary Sociology 21:513-514. pdf
Jennings, PD, F Dobbin, and J Baron. 1992. “Making War and Peace”. Pp. 179-193 in Doing Exemplary Research, edited by Peter J Frost and Ralph Stablein. Beverly Hills: Sage. Publisher's Version pdf
Dobbin, F. 1992. “Metaphors for Industrial Rationality: The Social Construction of Electronics Policy in the United States and France”. Pp. 185-206 in Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure, edited by Robert Wuthnow. London: Routledge. Publisher's Version pdf
Dobbin, F. 1992. “The Origins of Private Social Insurance: Public Policy and Fringe Benefits in America, 1920-1950”. American Journal of Sociology 97:1416-1450. pdf
1988
Dobbin, F, L Edelman, J Meyer, WR Scott, and A Swidler. 1988. “The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations”. Pp. 71-100 in Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment, edited by Lynne G Zucker. Cambridge: Ballinger. Publisher's Version pdf
Baron, James, P. Devereaux Jennings, and Frank Dobbin. 1988. “Mission Control?: The Development of Personnel Systems in U.S. Industry”. American Sociological Review 53 (4):497-514. pdf
1986
Baron, James N., Frank Dobbin, and P. Devereaux Jennings. 1986. “War and Peace: The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry”. American Journal of Sociology 92:350-383. pdf

Excerpted in: Doing Exemplary Research. Edited by Peter Frost and Ralph Stablein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1992. 

Response to Comment: 1988  J. Baron, F. Dobbin, and P.D. Jennings. "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day." American Journal of Sociology 93: 1231-1234.

     

     

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