The economic boom of the 1990s emboldened America’s political and business leaders to argue that their brand of free market enterprise was the most efficient economic system in the world. In the 1980s, those same leaders had been looking to Japan for lessons about how to run the economy. The...

This is a unique book. March, Schulz, and Zhou have developed an entirely new field of organizational research, which amounts to a sort of ecology of organizational rules, and have developed an elegant theory of that field. One of this book's most important contributions is to bring insights...

French Abstract: Cultures et mondialisation a pour point de départ l’ouvrage précédent de Philippe d’Iribarne, La logique de l’honneur (Seuil, 1989) dont la thèse centrale est que les cultures nationales de gestion peuvent être rapportées directement aux traditions politiques...

It is my pleasure to present the fifth guest editorial of the 2000-2001 school-year. This editorial is contributed by Professor Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Professor Dobbin is the author of Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the...

The story of EU rail and transportation policy is about the inter-relation between economic and political integration. The European Union is often seen as a structure for enforcing discipline on governments in a free market. The idealized market is driven by transcendental economic laws of...

Neo-liberalism has two components. One is historical, and it revolves around the idea that advanced economies - particularly those of Britain and the US - developed under conditions that are best characterized as laissez-faire. The other is definitional, and it revolves around the idea that one...

When the economist Michael Piore (1996, p. 742) looked out over the field of economic sociology he saw “an enormous hodge-podge of ideas and insights, existing at all sorts of different levels of abstraction, possibly in contradiction with one another, possibly just incommensurate, without a...

The story of EU rail and transportation policy is about the inter-relation between economic and political integration. The European Union is often seen as a structure for enforcing discipline on governments in a free market. The idealized market is driven by transcendental economic laws of...

Why do firms do what they do? Why does one cut prices while its neighbor buys out competitors? Why does one diversify into new industries while its neighbor spins off subsidiaries to focus on its core competence? Why do some strategies rise while others fall? These are central concerns of both...

Institutions impose constraints on us all. In recent years the institution of the university press has constrained the publication of edited volumes, and the appearance of this particular volume might be seen as evidence against the notion that institutional constraints are real. But this is the...