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Professor Beunza studies how social relations and technology shape value. Empirically, his work focuses on Wall Street and other financial settings. In one project, Beunza studied how a Wall Street bank organized its derivatives trading rooms to find profit opportunities. In another, he examined how securities analysts value companies whose future is radically uncertain. In yet another study, Beunza observed how Wall Street traders recovered from the attack of 9/11, rebuilt their trading equipment and found meaning in work outside Lower Manhattan. Beunza’s work, together with that of other sociologists in the United States and Europe, brings back the role of technological artifacts and mental models into our understanding of the capital markets and is known as the social studies of finance.

• Spring 2009
  (PhD) Organization Theory
  
• Summer 2009
  Organizational Change
  
• Spring 2008
  (PhD) Organization Theory
  
Creating Effective Organizations

• Fall 2007
  Creating Effective Organizations
  
• Spring 2007
  Creating Effective Organizations
  

Resolving Identities: Successive Crises in a Trading Room After 9/11 In Wounded City: The Social Impact of 9/11 (2005) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza, David Stark

A Price Is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage In Organization Studies (2006) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza, Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie

New artistic engagements with the capital markets In economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter (2006) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza

Tools of the Trade: The Socio-technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room In Industrial and Corporate Change (2004) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza, David Stark

The Organization of Responsiveness: Innovation and Recovery in the Trading Rooms of Lower Manhattan In Socio-Economic Review (2003) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza, David Stark

Reflexive Modeling: The Social Calculus of the Arbitrageur In Working Paper (2008) Coauthor(s): Daniel Beunza, David Stark