What is now referred to as the New Institutional Economics and/or the New Economics of
Organization began to take hold about twenty years ago [Arrow (1969), Davis and North …

“Business groups” are sets of legally separate firms bound together in persistent formal
and/or informal ways. The level of binding is intermediate between, and should be …

The majority of sociologists interested in business since the 1930s have focused either on
the effects of corporate policies and practices upon com munity life, as in studies of" …

Introduction on the loosely organized theme of its subtitle: sociological and economic
approaches to the analysis of social structure. Economic analysis of institutions has gained …

An adequate summary of the multiple lines of discourse, results and controversies offered by
the papers which follow is obviously beyond the scope of a short introduction. Rather, what I …

Not only sociologists but also economists have made important contributions to economic
sociology. Which particular works by economists are relevant in this context is indicated with …

Modern economic theory has long neglected, even ignored, the analysis of the different
modes of organization that characterize a market economy. Notwithstanding the efforts of …

The discipline of economics has seen two strong and, at first glance, mutually inconsistent
trends over the past twenty years: a return to dominance by the pure neoclassical tradition …

Sociologists have long been concerned with the analytical problem of relating the actions of
limited-purpose organizations to the affairs of individuals and collectivities in the sur …