The new economic sociology : a reader / edited by Frank Dobbin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Ch. 1 The sociological view of the economy / Frank Dobbin Ch. 2 From The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber Ch. 3 Institutionalized organizations : formal structure as myth and ceremony / John W. Meyer, Brian Rowan Ch. 4 The iron cage revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields / Paul J. DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell Ch. 5 From pricing the priceless child : the changing social value of children / Viviana A. Zelizer Ch. 6 The social construction of organizations and markets : the comparative analysis of business recipes / Richard Whitley Ch. 7 The decline and fall of the conglomerate firm in the 1980s : the deinstitutionalization of an organizational form / Gerald F. Davis, Kristina A. Diekmann, Catherine H. Tinsley Ch. 8 From the division of labor in society / Emile Durkheim Ch. 9 Economic action and social structure : the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter Ch. 10 Embeddedness and immigration : notes on the social determinants of economic action / Alejandro Portes, Julia Sensenbrenner Ch. 11 A structural approach to markets / Eric M. Leifer, Harrison C. White Ch. 12 From structural holes : the social structure of competition / Ronald S. Bur tCh. 13 Embeddedness in the making of financial capital : how social relations and networks benefit firms seeking financing / Brian Uzzi Ch. 14 From The German ideology / Karl Marx Ch. 15 From The transformation of corporate control / Neil Fligstein Ch. 16 From Socializing capital : the rise of the large industrial corporation in America / William G. Roy Ch. 17 From City of capital : politics and markets in the English financial revolution / Bruce G. Carruthers Ch. 18 From The elementary forms of the religious life / Emile Durkheim Ch. 19 From The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge / Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann Ch. 20 From Organizations : cognitive limits on rationality / James G. March, Herbert A. Simon Ch. 21 From Sensemaking in organizations / Karl E. Weick