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The MPA faculty includes specialists in political
science, sociology, law, and economics, as well as recognized
decision-makers and policy analysts from the public arena. To
guarantee a variety of critical and cultural perspectives as well
as of pedagogical approaches, academics and professionals from
around Europe and the world are invited to join a core group of
Sciences Po faculty. Their diversity complements that of the student
body, and adds to the richness and depth of the program.
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Erhard
FRIEDBERG
Erhard Friedberg, born in 1942 in Vienna, is Austrian by birth
and education. He holds degrees from Sciences Po Paris, the Freie
Universität Berlin and the Sorbonne Paris. His career has
been conducted in Germany and in France where he has completed
numerous empirical studies in a variety of settings, both in private
firms, especially in the French automotive industry, and in public
policy arenas such as the implementation of industrial and cultural
policy in France, or the comparison between the French and the
German university systems. Erhard Friedberg is presently full
professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris.
Professor Friedberg is the director of the Master of Public Affairs
at Sciences Po. He is both a researcher and a teacher. Since 1992,
he has been heading the Center for the Sociology of Organizations
(CSO), a research institute jointly affiliated with the French
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the National
Foundation of Political Sciences (FNSP) in Paris, as well as the
concentration area “Sociology of Action : Organization,
Market et Public Policy” in the research master of Sciences
Po Paris. He is a frequent consultant to Renault and other French
or European Firms, as well as the author of numerous books and
articles on the theory and practice of organized action translated
into Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese
and Spanish.
Professor Friedberg’s major contribution
to the study of organizations lies in the systematic development
of a theoretical and methodological framework for the analysis
of organized action. In “Actors and Systems” co-authored
with Michel Crozier, and more recently in “Local Orders
– The Dynamics of Organized Action”, he has developed
a general theoretical model of organization understood as the
process (always political in nature) of constructing and maintaining
“local or partial orders“, i.e. orderly patterns
of interaction among a set of individual and collective actors
linked by strategic interdependence. Formal organizations are
only one subset in a continuum of such “local orders”,
and the theoretical and analytical framework designed for their
analysis can therefore be transposed for the study of apparently
less structured and formalized contexts of action as for instance
network- and project organizations, social and political mobilizations,
public policy arenas, economic markets and other forms of collective
action.
Erhard Friedberg is currently at work on two projects. He has
initiated a program on the organizational and social impact
of the new information and communication technologies. He is
also the initiator and scientific director of a film and multi-media-project
on “The Founding Fathers of Organizational Thinking”.
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