Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action

Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization and design; performativity in and around markets; valuation; market places and spaces; methods that may be utilized in studying markets; the field's relation to adjacent disciplines; the future of markets. Deploying a sensitivity for the socio-material constitution of markets, the authors put market practices at the centre of inquiry and offer insights into the future and potential impact of market studies research. The contemporary, practical and interdisciplinary approach is strengthened by multiple examples of original empirical research into markets.

Susi Geiger is a Full Professor of Markets, Organization and Society in the College of Business at University College Dublin.

Katy Mason is Professor of Markets and Management in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Lancaster University.

Neil Pollock is a Professor of Innovation and Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group at the University of Edinburgh Business School.

Philip Roscoe is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews.

Annmarie Ryan is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.