Conventions and structures in economic organization : markets, networks, and hierarchies / edited by Olivier Favereau, Emmanuel Lazega.

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Favereau, Olivier, [editor]

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TextSeries: New Horizons in institutional and evolutionary economicsPublication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar c2002.Description: vii, 361 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

1840645105

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330 21

Contents:

Introduction / Emmanuel Lazega and Olivier Favereau -- 1. No man is an island: the research programme of a social capital theory / Henk Flap -- 2. Conventionalist approaches to enterprise / Francois 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 Stephane 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 Francois 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 -- Conclusion: quality is a system property. Downstream / Harrison C. White.

Summary: For individual actors involved in economic activities (i.e. Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization seeks to bridge this gap and will appeal to students and scholars in both economics and sociology, offering them new ideas about how they can co-operate in unsuspected ways and combine their interdisciplinary efforts.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

For individual actors involved in economic activities (i.e. Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization seeks to bridge this gap and will appeal to students and scholars in both economics and sociology, offering them new ideas about how they can co-operate in unsuspected ways and combine their interdisciplinary efforts.