Market relations and the competitive process / edited by Stan Metcalfe, Alan Warde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Metcalfe, J. S. (J. Stanley)

Warde, Alan.

Series:

New dynamics of innovation and competition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

International economic relations.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together. This book explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives.

Contents:

1 On the complexities and limits of market organisation / Richard R. Nelson 12

2 Markets, embeddedness and trust: problems of polysemy and idealism / Andrew Sayer 41

3 Cognition and markets / Brian J. Loasby 58

4 Competition as instituted economic process / Mark Harvey 73

5 Markets, materiality and the 'new economy' / Don Slater 95

6 Between markets, firms and networks: constituting the cultural economy / Fran Tonkiss 114

7 Regulatory issues and industrial policy in football / Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton 130

8 The evolution of the UK software market: scale of demand and the role of competences / Suma S. Athreye 144

9 Open systems and regional innovation: the resurgence of Route 128 in Massachusetts / Michael H. Best 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719064686

OCLC:

51041853