The sociology of the economy / Frank Dobbin, editor

Includes bibliographical references and index

Organizing America / Charles Perrow -- The state and the associational order of the economy: the institutionalization of cartels and trade associations in Japan, 1931-1945 / Bai Gao -- On legal institutions and their role in the economy / Richard Swedberg -- The globalization of American banking, 1962 to 1981 / Mark S. Mizruchi and Gerald F. Davis -- Corporate governance, legitimacy, and models of the firm / William D. Schneper and Mauro F. Guillén -- Global microstructures: the interaction of practices of financial markets / Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger -- Obligation, risk, and opportunity in the Renaissance economy: beyond social embeddedness to network co-constitution / Paul D. McLean and John F. Padgett -- The effects of domain overlap and non-overlap on organizational performance, growth, and survival / Heather A. Haveman and Lisa A. Keister -- Competing logics in health care: professional, state, and managerial / W. Richard Scott -- Talking about property in the new Chinese domestic property regime / Deborah S. Davis -- Sacred markets and secular ritual in the organ transplant industry / Kieran Healy

"The Sociology of the Economy brings together a dozen path-breaking empirical studies that explore how social forces - such as shifts in political power, the influence of social networks, or the spread of new economic ideas - shape real-world economic behavior."--Jacket