RESEARCH
My research is in the broad area of organizations, occupations, and
work. Specifically, I focus on two separate issues:
First, I conduct research on the institutional conditions that surround
organizational and industry emergence and evolution. Using the
case of radio braodcasting industry in the U.S., I have written about
the emergence of new forms, the regulation of the industry, and the
effect of organizational networks on dynamics of market competition and
and organizational survival. I am currently working on a project
that investigates the activities of amater broadcasters and
pre-commercial origins of the commercial broadcasting industry.
Papers from this project:
Lippmann, Stephen. 2005.
“Public
Airwaves, Private Interests: Competing Visions and Ideological
Capture
in the
Regulation
of U.S.
Broadcasting, 1920-1934." Research
in Political
Sociology. 14: 111-150.
Lippmann, Stephen. 2007. “The
Institutional Context of Industry
Consolidation: Radio
Broadcasting
in the U.S.,
1920-1934.” Social Forces.
86: 467-495
Lippmann, Stephen. Forthcoming.
“Rationalization, Standardization, or Market
Diversity? Station
Networks and
Market Structure in U.S.
Broadcasting, 1927-1950.” Social
Science History. 32: 405-136.
My second area of research is in employment flexibility and the
"new"
economy. Initially, my research investigated downsizing,
displacement, and the reemployment patterns of displaced workers and
the effects of downsizing on organizational committment and job
satisfaction. More recently, I have been conducting research on
changes in the institutional--both structural and cultural--bases of
employment and how different groups of workers respond to such
change. Currently, I am investigating age and cohort differences
in
understandings and beliefs about the employment relationship, and how
this affects career development and job-search behavior.
Papers from this project:
Lippmann, Stephen, and Jeffrey E.
Rosenthal. 2008. “Do
Displaced Workers Lose
Occupational
Prestige?”
Social
Science Research. 37: 642-656.
Lippmann, Stephen.
“Negotiating
Flexibility: Age and Cohort Effects on Unemployment and
Re-employment in the ‘New’
Economy.” Human Relations.
61: 1259-1292.
I've also written on entrepreneurship, and the conditions under which
people undertake entrepreneurial activities and self-employment.
Lippmann, Stephen, Amy
Davis, and Howard E. Aldrich. 2005 "Entrepreneurship and
Inequality." Research in the
Sociology of
Work. 15: 3-31.
Lippmann, Stephen.
2009 "Local
Labor Markets, Inequality, and Self-Employment in a Rural
Context." Sociological
Spectrum.
29: 371-400.
Lastly, I am interested in pegagogy, teaching
strategies, and classroom issues.
Lippmann, Stephen, and Howard Aldrich. 2003.
“The
Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer’s
McDonaldization Thesis to
Teach Weber.” Teaching
Sociology. 31: 134-145.
Lippmann, Stephen,
Ronald E. Bulanda, and Theodore C. Wagenaar.
2009. “Student
Entitlement: Issues and Strategies for
Confronting
Student
Entitlement in the Classroom and Beyond.” College Teaching. 57: 197-204