Catherine Joan Turco

Catherine Joan Turco

Cat Turco

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Motherhood, Inc.: Cultural and Organizational Dynamics in the Commercialization of Personal Life
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, Jocelyn Viterna, and Ezra W. Zuckerman (MIT)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge MA
Current Position: Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor in MIT's Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group as well as its program in Economic Sociology

Catherine J. Turco is an ethnographer and economic sociologist who studies cultural dynamics in organizations, occupations, and markets, with particular focus on the role of meaning in people's lives and work.

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