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Susan S. Silbey

Susan S. Silbey

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Law

D-Index
34
Citations
9401
World Ranking
170
National Ranking
128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Overview

Susan S. Silbey is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans several subfields including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Information Systems and Management, and Law.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Law in Society and Culture

Their recent scholarly output covers a range of subjects related to organizational behavior, regulatory practices, and legal culture. Notable papers include:

  • "Co-Opting Regulation: Professional Control Through Discretionary Mobilization of Legal Prescriptions and Expert Knowledge", 2021, Organization Science
  • "Accountability infrastructures: Pragmatic compliance inside organizations", 2021, Regulation & Governance
  • "Rank Has Its Privileges: Explaining Why Laboratory Safety Is a Persistent Challenge", 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Legal Culture and Cultures of Legality", 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Constructing Consequences for Noncompliance: The Case of Academic Laboratories", 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in research projects include:

  • Ruthanne Huising
  • Joëlle Evans
  • Gökçe Başbuğ
  • Ayn Cavicchi
  • Patricia Ewick

Key publication venues where Susan S. Silbey's work appears regularly include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Organization Science
  • Regulation & Governance
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Law & Society Review

The researcher has been recognized with fellowships from significant academic institutions, including:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2001)

Best Publications

  • The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life

    Patricia Ewick;Susan S. Silbey

  • Subversive stories and hegemonic tales: toward a sociology of narrative

    Patricia Ewick;Susan S. Silbey

  • Professional role confidence and gendered persistence in engineering

    Erin Cech;Brian Rubineau;Susan Silbey;Caroll Seron

  • AFTER LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS

    Susan S. Silbey

  • Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse.

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  • Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority1

    Patricia Ewick;Susan Silbey

  • Mediator Settlement Strategies

    Susan S. Silbey;Sally E. Merry

  • The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life

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  • Persistence Is Cultural: Professional Socialization and the Reproduction of Sex Segregation

    Carroll Seron;Susan S. Silbey;Erin Cech;Brian Rubineau

  • Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority 1

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  • Taming Prometheus: Talk About Safety and Culture

    Susan S. Silbey

  • “I am Not a Feminist, but. . .”: Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering:

    Carroll Seron;Susan Silbey;Erin Cech;Brian Rubineau

  • The Pull of the Policy Audience

    Austin Sarat;Susan Silbey

  • Governing the gap: Forging safe science through relational regulation

    Ruthanne Huising;Susan S. Silbey

  • Governing inside the organization: interpreting regulation and compliance.

    Garry C. Gray;Susan S. Silbey

  • WHAT DO PLAINTIFFS WANT? REEXAMINING THE CONCEPT OF DISPUTE*

    Sally Merry;Susan Silbey

  • The sociological citizen: Pragmatic and relational regulation in law and organizations

    Susan S. Silbey

  • Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research

    Susan S. Silbey;Austin Sarat

  • 1996 Presidential Address: "Let Them Eat Cake": Globalization, Postmodern Colonialism, and the Possibilities of Justice

    Susan S. Silbey

  • Legal culture and cultures of legality

    Susan S. Silbey

  • The “sociological citizen” relational interdependence in law and organizations

    Susan Silbey;Ruthanne Huising;Salo Vinocur Coslovsky

  • Let them eat cake : Globalization, postmodern colonialism, and the possibilities of justice

    S. S. Silbey

  • Case Processing: Consumer Protection in an Attorney General's Office

    Susan S. Silbey

  • Making a Place for Cultural Analyses of Law

    Susan S. Silbey

  • THE AVAILABILITY OF LAW

    Susan S. Silbey;Egon Bittner

  • Conformity, Contestation, and Resistance: An Account of Legal Consciousness

    Patricia Ewick;Susan S. Silbey

  • The Consequences of Responsive Regulation

    Susan S. Silbey

  • The Common Place of Law

    Susan S. Silbey;Ayn Cavicchi

  • In Litigation: Do the Have's Still Come Out Ahead?

    Herbert M Kritzer;Susan S Silbey

Frequent Co-Authors

Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat Amherst College
Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University
Herbert M. Kritzer
Herbert M. Kritzer University of Minnesota
Yves Dezalay
Yves Dezalay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John Hagan
John Hagan American Bar Foundation
Terence C. Halliday
Terence C. Halliday American Bar Foundation

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