Conventions and structures in economic organization markets, networks, and hierarchies

This book contributes to the current rapprochement between economics and sociology. It examines the fact that individuals use rules and interdependencies to forward their own interests, while living in social environments where everyone does the same. The authors argue that to construct durable orga...

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Main Author: Lazega, Emmanuel
Other Authors: Favereau, Olivier
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar c2002
Series:New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics series
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Summary:This book contributes to the current rapprochement between economics and sociology. It examines the fact that individuals use rules and interdependencies to forward their own interests, while living in social environments where everyone does the same. The authors argue that to construct durable organizations and viable markets, they need to be able to handle both. However, thus far, economists and sociologists have not been able to reconcile the relationship between these two types of constraints on economic activity
1. No man is an island : the research program of a social capital theory / Henk Flap -- 2. Conventionalist approaches to enterprise / François Eymard-Duvernay -- 3. Institutional embeddedness of economic exchange : convergence between new institutional economics and the economics of conventions / Christian Bessy -- 4. Transaction cost economics and governance structures : applications, developments and perspectives / Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier -- 5. Organizational ecology / David N. Barron -- 6. Interdependent entrepreneurs and the social discipline of their cooperation : a research programme for structural economic sociology in a society of organizations / Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier -- 7. Employer/employee relationship regulation and the lessons of school/work transition in France / Alain Degenne -- 8. Where do markets come from? : from (quality) conventions! / Olivier Favereau, Olivier Biencourt and François Eymard-Duvernay -- 9. Market profiles : a tool suited to quality orders? : an empirical analysis of road haulage and the theatre / Olivier Biencourt and Daniel Urrutiaguer -- 10. Solidarity, its microfoundations and macrodependence : a framing approach / Siegwart Lindenberg
Physical Description:vii, 361 p ill
ISBN:1840645105
9781781952863
9781840645101