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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology

Boeddeling, Jann - 2012

Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

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Are financial markets embedded in economics rather than society? A critical review of the performativity thesis

Henriksen, Lasse Folke - 2009

have it). Coming from actor-network theory, the literature contributes conceptually to an extended ontology of markets and …) Divide between finance the-ory and financial markets. However, the review finds that the literature is marked by a … methodological bias. The lit-erature works with the microsociological methods of actor-network theory and thus tends to deliver …

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The social order of markets

Beckert, Jens - 2007

In this article I develop a proposal for the theoretical vantage point of the sociology of markets, focusing on the problem of the social order of markets. The initial premise is that markets are highly demanding arenas of social interaction, which can only operate if three inevitable...

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Democracy, markets and the commons: Towards a reconciliation of freedom and ecology

Peter, Lukas - 2021

How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on...

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Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Market failure: A failed paradigm

Booth, Philip - 2008

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The Greek tragedy: Narratives and imagined futures in the Greek sovereign debt crisis

Beckert, Jens; Arndt, H. Lukas R. - 2024

Between 2009 and 2015 Greece underwent a profound sovereign debt crisis that led to a serious political crisis in Europe and the restructuring of Greek debt. We argue that the prevalence of negative narratives about the future contributed to the changes in spreads of Greek bonds during the...

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Economic action in South Korea: An heuristic attempt

Lee-Peuker, Mi-Yong - 2004

This paper presents an heuristics of economic action in South Korea which is based on a qualitative study conducted on-site. It focuses on the idea of experience-near concepts - as introduced by Clifford Geertz - and is verbalised by the terms affiliation, indebtedness and mediation. The...

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From economic gains to social losses: How stories shape expectations in the case of German municipal finance

Fastenrath, Florian; Orban, Agnes; Trampusch, Christine - 2017

"fashions" in organization theory and management studies. The swap story has spread since the mid-1990s among German …

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Transcending history's heavy hand: The future in economic action

Beckert, Jens; Ergen, Timur - 2020

möglicher Anwendungen der Erwartungsperspektive in der Wirtschaftssoziologie. Die zentralen Herausforderungen für die …

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