Organizations, Institutions and the Rebuilding of Markets: New Insights on the Debate

This chapter provides new insights on the debate on an economic sociology of the post-socialist transformation, First, the coupling of organizational practices and institutional pressures is not only a matter of state-(big)business relationships: more research is needed on the interactions between organizational and institutional actors in different sub-national contexts. Second, these interactions do not only involve collective actors in organizational fields, but also individuals and households in local communities and societies that differ in their social history and their potential for economic development. Third, to avoid black box explanations of the coupling that may stem from short-circuiting collective interests and institutions, we should go further ahead on the multidisciplinary dialogue on how much and how long economic action is socially embedded. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.