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Martin Ruef CV

Jack and Pamela Egan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
Sociology
PO Box 90088, Durham, NC 27710-0088
2200 West Main Street, Suite 770, Durham, NC 27705
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Scholarly Works - Books


Micro-Segregation: A Social History

Book · June 1, 2026 Featured Publication We often envision segregation by class or caste at a large scale and in objective terms. It seems easy to identify a "slum city" or a "ghetto," particularly when profound differences in infrastructure differentiate them from other neighborhoods and residen ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Managing Outliers and Anomalies: Tools for Understanding Unusual Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Organizations

Book · April 28, 2026 Featured Publication In this timely book, Martin Ruef and Colin Birkhead consider how academics and practitioners can learn from unusual entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations. ... Link to item Cite

Organizations Evolving (3rd Edition)

Book · 2020 Featured Publication Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third editi ... Link to item Cite

Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South

Book · 2014 Featured Publication Analyzing trajectories among average Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America. ... Link to item Cite

The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action

Book · 2010 Featured Publication Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone, and experts in international entrepreneurship have likewise noted the importance of groups in securing microcredit and ... Link to item Cite

The Sociology of Entrepreneurship

Book · 2007 This volume takes stock of entrepreneurship research within organizational sociology, critically examining the theoretical presuppositions of the field and situating extant research within the sociological canon. ... Link to item Cite

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

Book · 2000 Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and under ... Link to item Cite