Frank Dobbin is an organizational and economic sociologist at Harvard University. His research has shown how the human resources profession devised corporate strategies for complying with civil rights and affirmative action law and how widely those strategies have spread, with professionals defining what it means to practice equal employment opportunity and the courts largely accepting their definition. At the Radcliffe Institute he worked on a book about the efficacy of corporate diversity strategies, drawing on longitudinal data from more than eight hundred private sector employers. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation, and his book Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (1994) won the American Sociological Association Max Weber Award in 1996.
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Defining ContributionResearch on how corporate personnel managers defined discrimination under civil rights law and which diversity programs work 1 Notable WorkInventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton University Press, 2009) 2 Connections
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1. SCANCOR: Frank Dobbin (SCANCOR)
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shows how corporate personnel managers defined what it meant to discriminate as they sought to comply with civil rights legislation
2. DeZIM Institute: Frank Dobbin (DeZIM Institute)
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His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton U. Press 2009) shows how HR managers and activists defined what it meant to discriminate in the eyes of the law
3. Frank Dobbin (Radcliffe Institute)
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Frank Dobbin is an organizational and economic sociologist at Harvard University.
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