The Organization of Markets

Ahrne, Göran; Aspers, Patrik; Brunsson, Nils

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“…By considering calculative agencies as potential 'sites of power' but also as 'autonomous market organizations' (Ahrne et al, 2015) with their own agendas and interests, we can deepen the prior subjectification views on calculability by analysing how power plays through, over and also against calculative agencies in a process of market construction. To analytically document how the multiple facets of power play out in a process of market construction, we consider the multiple sites from which power can be exercised in relation to calculative agencies, in line with Fleming and Spicer (2014).…”

Section: Beyond Subjectification: Reconsidering Power and Its Links Tmentioning

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Calculability as Politics in the Construction of Markets: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment in France

Giamporcaro

Gond

2016

Organization Studies

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AcknowledgementsWe thank our Organization Studies acting editor on this paper, Professor David Courpasson, for his guidance and help through the review process, as well as two anonymous reviewers for their valuable insights. Earlier drafts of this paper benefitted of useful comments from Liliana Doganova, Peter Karnøe and the other attendees of the panel on 'Calculability and Performativity' at the conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Sciences (SSS) held in 2013 (San Diego), as well as from two presentations of our research at Principle for Responsible Investing (PRI) academic conference in 2013 (Paris) and 2010 (Copenhagen). We also acknowledged the useful comments from Dianela Laurel-Fois and the other participants of the sub-theme 51 at the 2015 EGOS Conference (Athens) as well as helpful informal discussions with Peter Fleming and Emilio Marti. 2 Authors' biographiesStéphanie Giamporcaro is Associate Professor and Research Director at the University of Cape Town Graduate School Of Business. Her theoretical roots are in sociology of markets and consumption, social studies of finance, economic sociology and French pragmatic sociology. She has published a book on political consumption and various peer reviewed academic articles. Her research focuses particularly on how sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) and impact investing practices are currently be implemented in the developed and emerging economies. Prior to that, she was the head of SRI research for the French think-tank Novethic, a subsidiary of the French Public Investment Group Caisse des Dépots.Jean-Pascal Gond is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Cass Business School, City University London (UK). His research mobilizes organization theory and economic sociology to investigate corporate social responsibility (CSR). His research in economic sociology is concerned with the influence of theory on managerial practice (performativity), the governance of self-regulation, and the interplay of society's commodification and markets' socialization. AbstractThis paper examines some of the processes by which power constitutes calculability and, in so doing, shapes the construction of markets. We combine insights from performativity studies about calculability with Lukes' 'radical view of power' to investigate how multiple facets of power are mobilized to influence the creation and activities of calculative agencies in the process of market construction. An in-depth longitudinal study of the French socially responsible investment market shows how organizations acting as calculative agencies become sites of power through calculability. We identify how power is exercised over, through and against these calculative agencies by a variety of actors in order to build their position in the socially responsible investment market. Our results complement the broader question of the 'government...

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Section: Beyond Subjectification: Reconsidering Power and Its Links Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Calculability as Politics in the Construction of Markets: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment in France

Giamporcaro

Gond

2016

Organization Studies

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“…This reform can be labeled as an attempt to organize a market (Ahrne et al, 2015) or as a construction of a quasi-market (Le Grand, 1991) and as such it is in line with other similar change efforts taking place (cf. Blomqvist, 2004).…”

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New forms of organization – new ways to organize

Högberg¹,

Sundin²,

Tillmar³

2015

Sustainable Development in Organizations

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“…All key actors contribute to and have impact on how the market is organised. The actors involved have their specific positions, motives and strategies that can be in conflict with other actors' interests, resulting in a dynamic organising process where there is always some uncertainty about the outcomes of the interplay (Ahrne, Aspers, & Brunsson, 2015).…”

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Contextualising the coevolution of (dis)trust and control – a longitudinal case study of a public market

Högberg

Sköld

Tillmar

2018

Journal of Trust Research

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Research into the dynamics of trust-control is still inconclusive. In this paper, we offer an in-depth understanding of how (dis)trust and control coevolve as embedded in multiple dimensions of context. The paper focuses on public markets, a context which is underrepresented in extant studies on trust and control. Our analysis is based on a longitudinal case study of interorganisational relationships (IOR) between boundary spanners representing purchaser and providers on a customer choice market for home care in a midsized municipality in Sweden. We identify, narrate and analyse critical incidents during seven years of the process. A conceptual framework contextualising the trust-control nexus of a public-private IOR is developed and utilised. We find that while the public-private IOR context requires control, control only enables deterrence trust from the municipal officers and only in individual providers. Interferential rather than symbiotic coevolution of trust and control is the dominating pattern. In addition, we find what we denote as mixed coevolution, where control simultaneously has positive and negative impact on trust. In our case in point, control enables trust in specific providers but this trust is not reciprocated due to experienced distrust on the category level.ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Organization of Markets

Cited by 172 publications

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Calculability as Politics in the Construction of Markets: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment in France

Calculability as Politics in the Construction of Markets: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment in France

New forms of organization – new ways to organize

Contextualising the coevolution of (dis)trust and control – a longitudinal case study of a public market

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