Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I. Economic Relationships and the Social Sciences
Chapter 1. The Nature of Economic Relationships / Mark Granovetter
Chapter 2. On the Relationship Between Economic Theory and Economic Sociology in the Work of Jospeh Schumpeter / Richard Swedberg
Part II. Trust, Cooperation, and Competition
Chapter 3. The Social Structure of Competition / Ronald S. Burt
Chapter 4. Studied Trust: Building New Forms of Cooperation in a Volatile Economy / Charles F. Sabel
Chapter 5. Undoing the Managerial Revolution? Needed Research on the Decline of Middle Management and Internal Labor Markets / Paul M. Hirsch
Part III. The Social Construction of Economic Institutions: Money, Markets, and Industries
Chapter 6. Markets in Production Networks / Harrison C. White
Chapter 7. Auctions: From Walras to the Real World / Charles W. Smith
Chapter 8. Making Multiple Monies / Viviana A. Zelizer
Chapter 9. Thomas Edison and the Social Construction of the Early Electricity Industry in America / Patrick McGuire, Mark Granovetter, and Michael Schwartz
Part IV. The Performance of Firms and Their Environments
Chapter 10. Organizational Design and the Performance Paradox / Marshall W. Meyer with Kenneth C. O'Shaughnessy
Chapter 11. Corporate Financing: Social and Economic Determinants / Linda Brewster Stearns and Mark S. Mizruchi
Chapter 12. Shareholder Power and the Struggle for Corporate Control / Michael Useem
Chapter 13. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society Revisited: Manufacturing and the Prospects for a Service-Based Economy / Frank P. Romo and Michael Schwartz
Part V. Small Firms in Networks
Chapter 14. Small Firm Networks / Charles Perrow
Chapter 15. Future Alternatives of Work Reflected in the Past: Putting-Out Production in Modena / Mark Lazerson
Index