This paper examines the main characteristics of the consular regime of social control of markets by looking at some aspects of the organization and operation of the Commercial Court of Paris, a four and a half century old institution in which judges are lay, business people. Comparing the...

This PhD dissertation combines the approaches of economic sociology and sociology of knowledge in order to analyze the social mechanisms underlying the conversion into organic farming. Based on an empirical study and analysis of a complete social network describing the interdependencies among...

The longitudinal study of advice networks among 240 judges at the Commercial Court of Paris permits the examination of learning as an interactive process. We argue that a spinning top model is a useful heuristic for intra-organizational learning in dynamic advice networks. This model proposes...