Economic Sociology and Embeddedness: How Shall We Conceptualize Economic Action?

By Jens Beckert. 2003

257 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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1. Gregory Jackson
2. Richard Deeg
3. N. Bandelj
4. Ruth V. Aguilera
5. Jens Beckert
6. Benjamin Braun

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. N. Bandelj
2. Gregory Jackson
3. Ruth V. Aguilera
4. Richard Deeg
5. Jens Beckert

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Ruth V. Aguilera
2. Gregory Jackson
3. Richard Deeg
4. Jens Beckert
5. N. Bandelj
6. Howard Gospel
7. Roberto García-Castro
8. Igor Filatotchev

Citations in the corpus

• Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy (2013, background): “…institutions, and cultural scripts that direct choices (Callon 1998, p. 11ff.; Granovetter 1985; Dobbin 2004).4 This is not to say that there would not have been advances in economic sociology that allow for a more prominent role of agency (Barbalet 2010; Beckert 2003; Storper and Salais 1997).”
• The social order of markets (2009, background): “(3) On the actor level, the dynamic processes of continuous change are rooted in the human ability to envision future states of the world and, based on these visions, to abandon routinized behavior (Beckert 2003: 775).”
• Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety (2007, background): “…in institutional theory is the application of pragmatist theories of action to understand creativity within institutionalized settings (Beckert 1996; Beckert 1999; Beckert 2003; Joas 1992; Whitford 2002). introduce sweeping institutional change; rather, endogenous sources of change can matter too.”
• Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups (2014, unknown): “A central component of embeddedness refers to actors' perceptions and attitudes toward certain forms of economic action (Beckert, 2003).”
• Emotions in economic action and interaction (2009, background): “While none of these mechanisms speaks directly about the importance of positive emotions, it is easy to infer that all of the four self-presentation strategies identified by Beckert entail emotion (not only impression) management by the trust-taker and, in turn, generate some emotional responses in ”
• Comparative and International Corporate Governance (2010, background): “Many of these phenomena are most actively being discussed within the literature on new “social studies in finance” (Beunza, Hardie, & MacKenzie, 2006; MacKenzie, 2007) and the economic sociology of markets (Beckert, 2003; Fligstein & Dauter, 2007), but remain sadly divorced from debates over corpora”