The New Economic Sociology - A Reader

Acknowledgments ix The Sociological View of the Economy 1(48) Frank Dobbin INSTITUTIONS From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 49(37) Max Weber Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony 86(25) John W. Meyer Brian Rowan The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields 111(24) Paul J. DiMaggio Walter W. Powell From Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children 135(27) Viviana A. Zelizer The Social Construction of Organizations and Markets: The Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes 162(26) Richard Whitley The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an Organizational Form 188(39) Gerald F. Davis Kristina A. Diekmann Catherine H. Tinsley NETWORKS From The Division of Labor in Society 227(18) Emile Durkheim Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness 245(29) Mark Granovetter Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action 274(28) Alejandro Portes Julia Sensenbrenner A Structural Approach to Markets 302(23) Eric M. Leifer Harrison C. White From Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition 325(24) Ronald S. Burt Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing 349(38) Brian Uzzi POWER From The German Ideology 387(20) Karl Marx From The Transformation of Corporate Control 407(26) Neil Fligstein From Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America 433(24) William G. Roy From City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution 457(28) Bruce G. Carruthers COGNITION From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life 485(11) Emile Durkheim From The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 496(22) Peter L. Berger Thomas Luckmann From Organizations: Cognitive Limits on Rationality 518(15) James G. March Herbert A. Simon From Sensemaking in Organizations 533(20) Karl E. Weick Index 553