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Jerald
Hage
Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of Center for
Innovation
Ph.D. Columbia
University, 1963
Office:
3151 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:
301 405-6347
Email:
jhage@umd.edu
Personal
Homepage:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/hage
 My
previous work in organizations and societies reflects
my belief that the problem of societal change
necessitates a multi-level approach. My major
goal is to write a theory of societal change that
respects alterative pathways and distinct historical
periods. The focus is on the interface between
organizations and institutions. The problem is
to predict path dependencies in the organizational
form as a consequence of the institutional context
and moments of institutional change.
With a team of researchers I am engaged in a collaborative
project that unites the macro, meso, and micro
levels of analysis by focusing on the causes of
major discoveries in bio-medicine. The first book
in this project is presently in press. The next
book focuses on radical innovation in French bio-medicine
with a special focus on the Institut Pasteur,
one of the four great world champions.
Another long-term interest of mine is the integration
of economic and sociological theory. Specifically
I have written a formal theory of adaptive costs
and benefits to broaden the institutional transaction
model in economics. I have also written a general
theory of endogenous economic growth. Finally,
I am interested in returning to the problem of
human capital and state coordination of education.
With this latter problem and a large data set
on Britain, France, Germany and Italy for the
period 1860-1990, presently I am analyzing in
interpreted time series designs, the impact of
state policy shifts on technical education enrollments
and then economic growth.
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