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Roberto M. Fernandez

MIT Sloan School of Management
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Structures of mediation: A formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks

RV Gould, RM Fernandez - Sociological methodology, 1989 - JSTOR
The concept of brokerage has gained considerable attention in recent years, but few
researchers have attempted to specify what the phenomenon is. In this paper, we develop a …

Social capital at work: Networks and employment at a phone center

RM Fernandez, EJ Castilla… - American journal of …, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
… We summarize this motivation for referral hiring as the richer pool argument (Fernandez and
… Similar to what we found in the western region of the retail bank (Fernandez and Weinberg …

Sifting and sorting: Personal contacts and hiring in a retail bank

RM Fernandez, N Weinberg - American Sociological Review, 1997 - JSTOR
Using unique data from a large retail bank, we investigate the theoretical mechanisms by
which preexisting social ties affect the hiring process. By focusing on a single, large employer, …

A dilemma of state power: Brokerage and influence in the national health policy domain

RM Fernandez, RV Gould - American journal of Sociology, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
… In Gould and Fernandez (1989), we show that there are five structurally distinct types of
broker (or equivalently, five types of brokerage relation) that follow from a partitioning of actors …

[HTML][HTML] FCC physics opportunities

…, A Alekou, M Aleksa, R Aleksan, RM Fernandez… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e+ e-, pp, ep
and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC …

Networks, race, and hiring

RM Fernandez… - American sociological …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
It is common for scholars interested in race and poverty to invoke a lack of access to job
networks as one of the reasons that African Americans and Hispanics face difficulties in the labor …

Gendering the job: Networks and recruitment at a call center

RM Fernandez, ML Sosa - American Journal of Sociology, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Although we are limited in our ability to address this issue in this setting (Fernandez and
Mors 2005), we have been able to locate data that speak to this issue in another firm’s call …

Social networks and social movements: Multiorganizational fields and recruitment to Mississippi Freedom Summer

RM Fernandez, D McAdam - Sociological Forum, 1988 - Springer
… Because we have analyzed the structure of this matrix elsewhere (see Fernandez and
McAdam, forthcoming), we will only highlight the major findings and the contrast with Berkeley …

Skill-biased technological change and wage inequality: Evidence from a plant retooling

RM Fernandez - American Journal of Sociology, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
One of the most popular explanations for the increased wage inequality that has occurred
since the late 1970s is that technological change has resulted in a downward shift in the …

[PDF][PDF] Differential contributions of rare and common, coding and noncoding Ret mutations to multifactorial Hirschsprung disease liability

…, F Lantieri, J Amiel, G Burzynski, RM Fernandez… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
The major gene for Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) encodes the receptor tyrosine kinase
RET. In a study of 690 European- and 192 Chinese-descent probands and their parents or …