The concept of trust has recently been rediscovered, especially in the fields of economic sociology and organization theory. Nevertheless, the actual functioning of trust in markets has only been understood incompletely up to now. As this paper argues, one reason for this is that...

Diese Einführung in die Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologie stellt zentrale Fragestellungen und Themenbereiche der Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologie zusammenfassend dar und unternimmt dabei den Versuch, aus den in der Regel disziplinär getrennten Themen der Wirtschafts- und der...

Rates of productivity growth slowed following the global financial crisis in nearly all OECD countries. Diverse national productivity performances are aggregates of the productivity performances of individual producers, which are influenced by organizational factors such as the quality of...