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Book SynopsisFocuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, and how category systems change over time.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Research on categories in the sociology of organizations. Legitimizing illegitimacy: How creating market identity legitimizes illegitimate products. Identity sequences and the early adoption pattern of a jazz canon, 1920–1929. Organizational form emergence and competing professional schemata of Dutch accounting, 1884–1939. Crossing a categorical boundary: the implications of switching from non-kosher wine production in the Israeli wine market. The consequences of category spanning depend on contrast. Organizational evolution with fuzzy technological formats: tape drive producers in the world market, 1951–1998. Activists, categories, and markets: Racial diversity and protests against Walmart store openings in America. From Categorical Imperative to Learning by Categories: Cost Accounting and New Categorical Practices in American Manufacturing, 1900–1930. Identity repositioning: The case of Liberal Democrats and audience attention in British politics, 1950–2005. The duality of niche and form: The differentiation of institutional space in New York City, 1888–1917. Category currency: The changing value of conformity as a function of ongoing meaning construction. Advisory Board. Research in the sociology of organizations. Research in the sociology of organizations. Copyright page.
