Sanford M. Jacoby
Sanford M. Jacoby (born 1953) is an American economic historian and labor economist, and Distinguished Professor of Management, History, and Public Policy at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is known for his studies of the transformation of work in American industry,[1][2] corporate governance, and welfare capitalism.[3][4]
Biography
Born in New York City, Jacoby received his AB in Economics in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in Economics in 1981 from University of California, Berkeley.[5]
Jacoby started his academic career at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1980 as Assistant Professor,[6] and was appointed Howard Noble Distinguished Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2001.[7] He has been a visiting professor at the Doshisha University, London School of Economics, University of Manchester, University of Tokyo, and Waseda University. His research interests include the history of employer and labor market institutions, and the political economy of corporate governance, including Japan. [5] He is co-editor of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.
Jacoby has received a series of recognitions for his work, starting in 1982 with the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association.[6] In 1986 he received the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management, and in 1997 the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History. He has been elected fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance in 1999, an Abe Fellow of the Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council in 2000, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and Research Fellow, Labor & Employment Research Association in 2010.[5]
Selected publications
- Jacoby, Sanford M. Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985; revised edition 2004. Japanese translation.
- Jacoby, Sanford M. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Princeton University Press, 1997. Japanese translation.
- Jacoby, Sanford M. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2005. Chinese and Japanese translations.
Articles, a selection:
- Jacoby, Sanford M. "The new institutionalism: what can it learn from the old?." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 29.2 (1990): 316-340.
- Jacoby, Sanford M. "Are career jobs headed for extinction?." California Management Review 42 (1999): 123-145.
- Jacoby, Sanford M. "Finance and labor: perspectives on risk, inequality, and democracy." Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 31.1 (2008): 17-66.
- Jacoby, Sanford M. "“Foreign investors and corporate governance in Japan: the case of CalPERS” in D.H. Whittaker and S. Deakin, eds., Corporate Governance and Managerial Reform in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2010):
References
- ↑ Scott, W. Richard. Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice hall, 1987.
- ↑ Miller, Gary J. Managerial dilemmas: The political economy of hierarchy. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- ↑ Godard, John. "A critical assessment of the high‐performance paradigm." British journal of industrial relations 42.2 (2004): 349-378.
- ↑ Clegg, Stewart R., David Courpasson, and Nelson Phillips. Power and organizations. Pine Forge Press, 2006.
- 1 2 3 Sanford M. Jacoby's CV at anderson.ucla.edu. Accessed 22.11.2014.
- 1 2 University Bulletin: A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California, Volume 31. Office of Official Publications, University of California, 1982. p. 36
- ↑ UCLA Anderson School Professor Appointed to Endowed Chair by Kimberly Lisella, May 15, 2001. Accessed 22.11.2014.
External links
- Sanford M. Jacoby, Howard Noble Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations at UCLA Anderson
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