Forrest Briscoe Assistant Professor of Management Smeal College of Business The Pennsylvania State University 469 Business Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 865-0746 fbriscoe@psu.edu Department webpage CV

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Selected Papers

• The Nixon-in-China Effect: Activism, Imitation and the Institutionalization of Contentious Practices (with Sean Safford, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2008)
• From Iron Cage to Iron Shield? How Bureaucracy Enables Temporal Flexibility for Professional Service Workers (Organization Science, 2007)
• Bureaucratic Flexibility: The Role of Large Professional Organizations for Professional Workers (ILR Review, 2006)
• HR Versus Finance: Who Controls Corporate Health Care? (Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations, 2005)

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Research

• Institutional change
• Professional organizations and careers
• The employment relationship

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Teaching

• MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior and Design (Spring 2008)
• Past courses: Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations

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Links

• Management & Organizations Department at Smeal
• Penn State Labor Studies & Employment Relations Department
• MIT Workplace Center

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