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Sandy Green
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-3476
sgreen@usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, MA, Harvard University; BA, UC-Berkeley
Personal Website: 
http://usc.academia.edu/sandygreen/CurriculumVitae

Overview

Sandy Green studies the role of rhetoric in markets and corporations. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Management Inquiry. Professor Green has received several teaching awards, including a Golden Apple Award in 2006 and USC's Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2007.

Research

Rhetorical Institutionalism: Language and Agency in Institutional Theory since Alvesson • 2010
Work, Wealth, and Worry: The Benefits of Communication Study for Economic Literacy • 2010
Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets: The Dot.Com Bubble • 2010
Organizational Inquiry as a Rhetorical Process: The Role of Tropes in Organizational Science • 2010
Suspended in Self-spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency • 2009
About Face without Loss of Face: Constructing Legitimate Authoritative Arguments in Radical Change, A China Story • 2009
Digging for the Rhetorical Artifacts of Institutionalization: Conceptualizing the Acquisition of Cognitive Legitimacy as the Linguistic Compression of Information • 2009
Institutional Change: How Actors in Genomics use Discourse to Manage the Evolving Risks of Race • 2009
Institutional Logics and the Rhetorical Encoding of Legitimacy: A Dramatistic Pentadic Analysis of an Emergent Field. • 2009
Rhetoric and the Blessing and Curse of Institutionalization: A Computer Simulation and Model of Evidence, Presumption, and Argument Production in Strategic Decisions to Explore or Exploit • 2009
The organizational whisperer: What animal and human behavior can teach us about producing healthy people and integral organizations • 2009
Towards a Stakeholder Theory of Crises Management • 2009
Using a Rhetorical Framework to Predict Corruption • 2008
Institutional field dynamics and the competition between institutional logics: The role of rhetoric in the evolving control of the modern corporation • 2008
Inquiry on Inquiry: Inquiry as a Reflective Process • 2005
A Rhetorical Theory of Diffusion • 2004
Crises as Ill Structured Messes • 2004
Chrysler: Lee Iacocca's Legacy • 1993
Ford: Petersen's Turnaround • 1993
General Motors: Smith's Dilemna • 1993
Millipore: A Common Language for Common Systems • 1993