Baruch Shimoni is a
professor of sociology and organization development. He has a Ph.D. from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent a year
(1999-2000) at Sloan School of Management at MIT. In the 2003-2005, he had a
post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University.
In his most recent research project, Professor Shimoni uses the concept of habitus
to understand and cope with processes of change and development. He links the
Bourdieuan concept of habitus to the field of OD provide a new way to
incorporate the individual and the social in OD.
