The Contested Moralities of Markets (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 63) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787691209 ISBN 13: 9781787691209

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Moral struggles in and around markets abound in contemporary societies where markets have become the dominant form of economic coordination. The present volume advances our current understanding of markets by highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets. It traces the creation, reproduction and change of underlying moral orders and reveals the role of status and power differentials, alliances and political strategies as well as the general cultural, social and political contexts in which the struggles unfold. The contributions to this volume reflect the ‘moral turn’ that can currently be observed in organization studies and economic sociology, and connect to recent developments in the sociology of morality.

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About the Author

Simone Schiller-Merkens is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. In her research, she draws on organization studies, social movement theory and economic sociology to study the formation and change of market categories and fields at the intersection of economic and non-economic spheres. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Management, Historical Social Research, and Schmalenbach Business Review.

Philip Balsiger is an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His work analyzes the moral embeddedness of contemporary markets, including the struggles around the institutional and cultural order of markets, the emergence of moral categories in markets, and ethical consumption. He is the author of The Fight for Ethical Fashion (2016) and has published papers in journals such as European Journal of Sociology, Business & Society, and Journal of Consumer Culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787691209
• ISBN 13: 9781787691209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Schiller-Merkens Simone, Balsiger Philip