How does associative action shape market orders? While Economic Sociology has accumulated ample evidence on how networks, institutions and culture shape market valuations as well as competition and cooperation between market actors, little is known about the effect of organizing and associative...

How does the coordination of agricultural producers affect the structure of commodity chains? How does the embeddedness of agricultural producers in value chains influence the coordination of agricultural producers? To address these questions, this article presents evidence from a historical...

Vergleich marktsoziologischer Theorien über die Koordination von Produzenten -- Diskussion zentraler Theorien der Verbandsforschung -- Geschichte der deutschen Biomärkte von 1946-2012 -- Analyse von Koordinationsleistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden auf Märkten