Education:

• Ph.D. - Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Major: Organizational Behavior, 1981
• MS - Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Major: Organizational Behavior, 1975
• BA - State University of New York at Buffalo, Major: Social Psychology, 1972

Research Interests:

• Institutional and ecological models of organizational populations
• Crosscultural analyses of reactions to organizational structure
•  Post-postmodernist organizational theory

Teaching Interests:

• Organization Theory and Design
• Organizational Behavior
• Management

Honors and Activities:

• Recipient: University of Delaware Foundation Research Grant, Shell Foundation Research Grant.
• Research Fellow: The Conference Board.
• Consultant: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholismn; Texaco; Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Delaware; Milford Memorial Hospital; New York State Department of Mental Hygiene; E. I. DuPont.
• Keynote speaker: National Employee Assistance Programming Conference, Annual Meetings of the Association of Labor-Management Administrators and Consultants on Alcoholism.
• Ad hoc reviewer: Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Financial Research, Academy of Management. 
• Nominee: University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award.

Recent Publications:

• Miller, L. & Weiss, R. Medical Education Reform Efforts and Failures of U.S. Medical Schools, 1870-1930. Journal of the History of Medicine, Forthcoming, 2008

• Weiss, R.  Deriddada.  Journal of Management Inquiry, 16, 2007.

• Weiss, R.  Overcoming resistance to surveillance: A genealogy of the EAP discourse.  Organization Studies, 26, 2005.

• Weiss, R.  Effects of program characteristics on EAP utilization.  Employee Assistance Quarterly, 18, 2003.

• Weiss, R.  Taking science out of organization science: How would postmodernism reconstruct the analysis of organizations?  Organization Science, 11, 2000.

• Weiss, R.  Politics and organizational science. Academy of Management Review, 23, 1998.

• Miller, L. & Weiss, R.  Reactions to organizational structure: A comparison of employees in the U.S. and Bulgaria. In A. Ullmann and A. Lewis (eds.), Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe. Haworth Press, 1997.