Research Interests
My interests include the workplace, organizations, and economic
sociology. My current research, in collaboration with Jim
Coverdill at UGA and John Mellinger and Gina Adrales at the Medical
College of Georgia, looks at the effect on duty hour reductions on the
work and training of
surgical residents and faculty. My book
on headhunters,
co-authored with Jim Coverdill, was published by Cornell
University
Press in March 2002. For more information about it, take a look at the table
of contents or go to www.amazon.com. Some other
publications from our headhunters project are:
Finlay, William and James E. Coverdill. 2000. "Risk, Opportunism, and Structural Holes: How Headhunters Manage Clients and Earn Fees." Work and Occupations 27: 377-405.
Finlay, William and James E. Coverdill. 1999. "The Search Game: Organizational Conflicts and The Use of Headhunters." The Sociological Quarterly 40: 11-30.
James E. Coverdill and William Finlay. 1998. "Fit and Skill in Employee Selection: Insights from a Study of Headhunters." Qualitative Sociology 21: 105-127.