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Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet Economic Realities?
International Conference in Moscow
national research
October 25-28, 2012 university
Thursday, October 25
15:30-16:00 / Thursday, 25 October Location: Polytechnical Museum
Welcome to Moscow
Vadim Radaev (Higher School of Economics) 16:00-18:00
Location: Polytechnical Museum
Plenary session 1. Capitalist Development and Institutional Change
Chair(s): to be announced
Speakers:
Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century
Glenn Morgan (University of Cardiff) The Fund-Manager-Value Revolution: How Institutional Investors Rewrote Shareholder Value Frank Dobbin (Harvard University)
Friday, October 26
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20). Room No. 311 MC 1. New Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Sociology
Session 1. Embeddedness or Functional Differentiation?
Chairs: Patrik Aspers (Stockholm University)
Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Oral Presentations:
Relationality vs Embeddedness, Circuits vs Networks Nina Bandelj (University of California, Irvine) Modernity as a Functionally Differentiated Capitalist Society — A General Theoretical Perspective
Uwe Schimank (University of Bremen) Economic Circularities and Second Order Observation
Elena Esposito (Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Logics under Construction: Social Ideals, Residential Design and Energy Consumption Nicole Biggart (University of California)
Distributed Papers:
Embeddeness and Coordination in Agribusiness Systems: The Case of Brazilian Beef Alliances Luis Bau Macedo (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) Cassio Aguiar Costa (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) Fabio Nishimura (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) Whistleblowing is a Main Instrument Creating a Transparent Government
Maria Batishcheva (Yale University) Uncertainty Economics of Embedded Social Action
Jin Kabele (Charles University in Prague) The Mobile Society. Using Actor-Network Theory to Understand Role of Mobile Devices and Online Services
Jaroslaw Krolewski (AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow) Coordination across Borders - Towards Sociology of East Asian Regionalism
Dennis McNamara (Georgetown University) Socio-Economic Condition of the Kolgha Tribe
Jhaver Patel (Gujarat University Ahmedabad Gujarat India) Strong Potential, Solvable Problems: Bringing Bourdieu Back into the Analysis of Markets Lisa Suckert (University of Bamberg)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20). Room No. 116
MC 2. Money, Finance and Society
Session 1. The Making of (Financial) Markets
Chair: Olga Kuzina (Higher School of Economics)
Oral Presentations:
Constructing Markets: The Sociology of Building Markets for Bank Cards Alya Guseva (Boston University) Akos Rona-Tas (UCSD) Financial Crisis and the Black Box of the Corporate Bond Market
Daniel Maman (Ben-Gurion) Capitalism without Capital: Capital Conversion and Market Making in Rural China Zhou Xueguang (Stanford University) Yun Ai (Peking University) Financialization of the Public Sector — Wall Street Hubris in Norwegian Municipal Administrations
Odd Gasdal (University of Bergen) Tomas L0ding (University of Bergen) Making Monetary Markets Transparent. The European Central Bank's Communicatio Poicy and Its Interactions with the Media
Olav Velthius (University of Amsterdam)
Distributed Papers:
Claims on Value: A Framework for a Theory of Interpreted and Communicative Money
Jason Jensen (McGill University) Violence of Money Withdrawal. Social Discontent with the Russian Stabilization Fund Ewa Dabrowska (Hamburg Institute of International Economics)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101 MC 6. Market Society and Moral Order
Session 1. Contested Commodities
Chair: Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley & Sciences Po)
Oral Presentations:
Obscurity Work: Narratives of Closeness and Distance in a Personalized Service Market Erika Cederholm (Lund University) Johan Hultman (Lund University) Economy of Unselfishness: Practices of Subjectification in Direct-Sales Organizations andEuphe-mization of Language of Economic Profit
Natalia Savelyeva (Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science) Contested Commodities and the Social Construction of Interested Behaviour: Online Gambling and Human Organs
Philippe Steiner (Université Paris IV la Sorbonne) Marie Trespeuch (Orange Labs) The Crafty Merchant and Bourgeois Vanity: On Subversive Institutions in the Funeral Market Pascale Trompette (CNRS)
Distributed Papers:
The WTO and the Kaliningrad Region: A Movement Towards a Compromise or a Conflict?
Efim Fidrya (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) Intermediaries in Trust: An Experimental Study on Incentives and Norms
Squazzoni Flaminio (University of Brescia) Socially Embedded Academic Labour Market and Opportunity Structures for Professional Development in Germany
Natalia Karmaeva (Bielefeld University) Social Identification and Markets: A Conventionalist Viewpoint on Ethics and Rationality
Rouslan Koumakhov (Reims Management School) Economic Mentality of the Population of Modern Ukraine
Tatiana Petrushina (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Expanding Markets, Insecure Citizens? Marketization and Uncertainty in Western European Market Societies
Patrick Sachweh (Goethe University Frankfurt) The Social Construction of Markets and Sustainability: the Case of European Union Fisheries Policy
Filippa Sawe (Lund University) Johan Hultman (Lund University) Informal Employment and Subjective Social Status: New Insights into Russian Labour Market Functioning
Anna Zudina (Higher School of Economics)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309 MC 5. Gender and Work Transformation
Session 1. Gender Inequality in Organizations
Chair: Sarah Ashwin (London School of Economics)
Oral Presentations:
Glass Floors and Glass Ceilings: Sex Homophily andHeterophily in Job Interviews
Lauren Rivera (Northwestern University) Combining Sociological and Economic Theories to Explain Inequality at Labor Market Entry: Discrimination?
Christian Hunkler (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy) Discussant: Roberto Fernandez (MIT, Sloan)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 311 MC 1. New Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Sociology
Session 2. Creativity in Markets
Chairs: Patrik Aspers (Stockholm University)
Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Oral Presentations:
New Ideas for a New Economic Sociology?
Sophie Mützel (Social Science Research Center, Berlin) Performing Network Theory? Reflexive Relationship Management on Social Network Sites
Gernot Grabher (HafenCity University Hamburg, Urban and Regional Economic Studies) Jonas König (HafenCity University Hamburg) Entrepreneurship in «Transitional» Societies: Tthe Social and Economic Causes and Outcomes of Path
Alexander Chepurenko (Higher School of Economics) John Round (Higher School of Economics) Creating Markets for Technologies in the Making
Cornelius Schubert (Berlin University of Technology) Arnold Windeler (Berlin University of Technology) Emerging Markets: The Case of «World Music» in England Glaucia Peres da Silva (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 116 MC 3. Organizations and Institutions in Emerging Markets
Session 1. Business Relationships and Regulatory Practices
Chair: Vadim Radaev (Higher School of Economics)
Oral Presentations:
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
Victor Nee (Cornell University) Banking Reform in China: Mapping the Struggle over Ideas, Rule Formation and the Control of the Regulatory Field
Jane Nolan (University of Leicester)
A Tale of Two Regions: The Institutional Embeddedness of Clothing Industry in Indonesia
Rochman Achwan (Universityof Indonesia) European Integration and the Political Construction of Market in East European Countries: the Case of the Automobile Sector
Tommaso Pardi (GIS Gerpisa — ENS Cachan) Bernard Jullien (GIS Gerpisa — ENS Cachan) Regional Variation in Corruption in Russia
Alexey Bessudnov (Higher School of Economics)
Distributed Papers:
When Formal Meets Informal: Organizational Cultures of Siberian IT Companies
Alla Anisimova (Novosibirsk State University) Social Entrepreneurship: Creation of Institutions or Embeddedness Lab
Alexandra Moskovskaya (Higher School of Economics) The Calendar and Event Scheduling: A Comparison of Economic and Non-Economic Collective Actions
Benjamin Lind (Higher School of Economics) Commercialization of Knowledge in an Imitating economy. Case Study of a Polish Technical University
Maria Nawojczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology) Practices on the Russian Periphery: Land Use in the Amur Oblast and Competition between Russian and Chinese Farmers
Natalya Ryzhova (The Amur Laboratory of Economics and Sociology, Institute for Studies in Economics)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101 MC 4. Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations
Session 1. Innovation in Valuation
Chair: David Stark (Columbia University)
Oral Presentations:
Relational Investment under Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Venture Capital Industry in Israel
Ilan Talmud (University of Haifa) Creating Discoveries, Trading Stories: The Cognitive Organization of the Market for Antiques
Elena Bogdanova (Stockholm University) Economy of Values and Statuses: Respect Index at the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Abbey House Auction House Creating Values on/through Financial Market in Poland Mikolaj Lewicki (Warsaw University; Institute of Sociology) Discussant: David Stark (Columbia University)
Distributed Papers:
Valuation Networks of Venture Capitalists
Alvaro Pina Stranger (Center of Sociology of Innovation) The Social Capital of Networks — Example of Crowdsourcing
Magdalena Tuleta (AGH — University of Science and Technology) Theoretical Models of Innovation Embeddedness. Discussion of Thermal Rehabilitation of Buildings in Romania
Adriana Mica (Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism — University of Gdansk)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309 MC 5. Gender and Work Transformation
Session 2. Gender, Care and Labor Markets
Chair: Roberto Fernandez (MIT, Sloan)
Oral Presentations:
Economic Growth and Gender Inequality in Russian Regions
Elena Mezentseva (Higher School of Economics) Career-Fertility Combinations among Women and their Effect on Life Satisfaction
Tatiana Karabchuk (Higher School of Economics) A Heterogeneous Group in the Labor Market: Working Conditions among the Self-Employed in Sweden from a Gender Perspective
Jonas Edlund (Umea University, Sweden) Discussant: Sarah Ashwin (London School of Economics)
16:00-18:00
Location: Polytechnical Museum Plenary Session 2. Power of Networks
Chair: to be announced
Speakers:
The Power of Networks in Labor Markets
Roberto Fernandez (MIT, Sloan) Collective Wisdom and Embeddedness: Decoding Stock Traders' Social and Instant Message Networks
Brian Uzzi (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Saturday, October 27
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 311 MC 1. New Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Sociology
Session 3. Theorizing Quality?
Chairs: Patrik Aspers (Stockholm University)
Jens Becker! (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Oral Presentations:
Qualities and Inequalities: How the Interplay of Quality Signals Shapes Economic Value
Fabien Accominotti (Columbia University) Reframing Incommensurability in Environmental Valuation: From Value Pluralism to the Plurality of Engagements with the World
Laura Centemeri (CNRS National Center for Scientific Research) Housing Markets in India — Convention Theory in a Practice Test
Anthony Boanada-Fuchs (The Graduate Institute Geneva; IHEID)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 116 MC 2. Money, Finance and Society
Session 2. Household Consumption
Chairs: Akos Rona-Tas (UCSD)
Income Inequality and Access to Credit: A Fresh Look at Redistributive Politics in the Neoliberal Era
Basak Kus (Wesleyan University) Income, Consumption, and Household Indebtedness in the U.S., 1989-2007
Adam Goldstein (UC Berkeley) How do Lay Consumers Understand Financial Strategizing?
Olga Kuzina (Higher School of Economics) His Money, Her Money: Who Holds the Purse Strings in the Russian Households? Alya Guseva (Boston University) Dilyara Ibragimova (Higher School of Economics) Money and Things: Youth Consumption in Russian Megalopolis Elvira Arif (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg) Yana Krupets (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101
MC 4. Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations
Session 2. Performance Outcomes of Innovative Organizational Arrangements
Chair: Giacomo Negro (Emory University)
Oral Presentations:
Network Diversity of Founding Teams: Entrepreneurial Performance in Late Imperial Russia Brandy Aven (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University) Henning Hillmann (University of Mannheim) The Emergence and Consequences of Embeddedness: Proactiveness in Advice Seeking Networks Evgenia Dolgova (Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University) Vareska van de Vrande (Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University) Firm Boundaries and Social Networks
David Scofield (University of Aberdeen) Freelance Contracting in the Digital Age: Informality, Virtuality and Social Ties Andrey Shevchuk (Higher School of Economics) Denis Strebkov (Higher School of Economics) Discussant: Giacomo Negro (Emory University)
9:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309 MC 7. Performing Economy in a Material World
Session 1. From Economic Knowledge to Economic Reality
Chair: Trevor Pinch (Cornell University)
Oral Presentations:
Economy in the Making: The Coming to Life of a Socialist Plan Alina-Sandra Cucu (Central European University, Budapest)
Soviet Mathematical Economics between Plan and Market (A Case of Viktor Polterovitch)
Olessia Kirtchik (Higher School of Economics) The Impact of Forensic Economics on the Production and Evaluation of Economic Knowledge
Ioannis Lianos (University of Cambridge) Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies in Frontier Regions of Global Agrarian Capitalism
Stefan Ouma (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main) Free Riders between Models and Bus Stops: For a Sociology of Disembedded Economy Greg Yudin (Higher School of Economics)
Distributed Papers:
Markets as Compromises. Performing Ambiguity
Lisa Knoll (University of Hamburg) A New Star is Born? The Incorporation of Behavorial Economics through Authorization Raphael Heiberger (Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101
MC 1. New Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Sociology
Session 4. Ties in Markets
Chairs: Patrik Aspers (Stockholm University)
Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Oral Presentations:
Towards a Financial Sociology: Managerial Agency, Decoupling and Organizational Change
Yally Avrahampour (London School of Economics) The Influence of Feelings on Investment Decisions on the Financial Markets
Konstanze Senge (Hamburg University) The Growth of Precarious Work: A Challenge for Economic Sociology
Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina) The Post-Sale Gift
Asaf Darr (University of Haifa) A Taxonomy of Gifting
Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough University, UK)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 116
MC 3. Organizations and Institutions in Emerging Markets
Session 2. Corporate Networks and Interfirm Coordination
Chair: Victor Nee (Cornell University)
Oral Presentations:
Embeddedness Unpacked: Constitutive Elements and Facilitating Factors of Relational Exchange in Supply Chain
Vadim Radaev (Higher School of Economics) Structural Embeddedness and Contractual Relationships in Russian Emerging Markets
Zoya Kotelnikova (Higher School of Economics) Austria Incorporated forever? On the Stability of a Coordinated Corporate Network in Times of Privatization, Transnationalzation and a Turn towards Finance Capitalism Philipp Korom (University of Graz)
How the Institutional Context and Dominant Actors Determine the Constitution of Markets — the Case of the Swiss Market for Risk Capital
Raimund Hasse (University of Lucerne) Eva Passarge (University of Lucerne) Between Home and Host Country — The Dual Embeddedness of Inter-National Organizations Johann Fortwengel (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101
MC 6. Market Society and Moral Order
Session 2. Economic Institutions as Moral Institutions
Chair: Nina Bandelj (UC Irvine)
Oral Presentations:
Normative Standards of Business Firm Societal Responsibility: Consensus and Cleavages Expressed in Public Attitudes
Arvid Backstrom (Department of Sociology, Umeâ University) Regulating Markets by Norms. The French Public Policy on Environmental Labelling
Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier (Sciences Po — CNRS) Marketizing Solidarity: The Fair Trade Movement, Product Labeling and Fair Consumption in Western Europe 1997-2009
Sebastian Koos (Universität Mannheim) Publications in Print Media as a Factor of Shaping Negative Attitudes towards Retail Store Chains
Elena Nazarbaeva (Higher School of Economics)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309
MC 7. Performing Economy in a Material World
Session 2. Valuation and Translation: Designing the Infrastructure
Chair: Greg Yudin (Higher School of Economics)
Oral Presentations:
Online Consumer Reviews: Design and Consequences of a New Valuation Device Vincent Cardon (Orange Labs) Thomas Beauvisage (Orange Labs) Jean-Samuel Beuscart (Orange Labs) Kevin Mellet (Orange Labs) Marie Trespeuch (Orange Labs) A Club Apple Society: The Biosocial Impacts of Economic Institutions and Materiality of Markets
Katharine Legun (University of Wisconsin — Madison) Value Migrations from Artworks to Experience Goods: Three Exploratory Pieces
Michael Hutter (Social Science Research Center Berlin) How the Socio-Materiality of Waste Shapes Economies: Waste Management as Critical Infrastructural Service
Hervé Corvellec (Lund University) Johan Hultman (Lund University) Experimental Trials: The «Inside-Out» of Innovation Markets Ann-Christina Lange (Goldsmiths University of London)
16:00-18:00
Location: Polytechnical Museum
Plenary Session 3. Culture and Valuation
Chair: to be announced
Speakers:
The Economy as Morality Play
Marion Fourcade (University of California, Berkeley) Shifting Modes and Loci of (E)valuation: A Transcultural Critical Perspective Laurent Thevenot (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Sunday, October 28
09:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 116 MC 3. Organizations and Institutions in Emerging Markets
Session 3. Formal institutions and Informal Practices
Chair: to be announced
Oral Presentations:
Beyond Written Laws, Codes, and Statutes: What Governs Judicial Behavior in Russia
Vadim Volkov (European University at St Petersburg) Governing a Parallel Financial System: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions at the Regulatory Event Horizon
Todd Arthur Bridges (Cornell University) The Market of Funeral Services: Transformation of the Rules of Ritual to the Rules of Market
Ekaterina Moiseeva (European University at St Petersburg; Boston University) Situating Property in Practice: Beyond Private and Collective
Peter Lindner (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Institutionalisation of Market Order and Re-Institutionalisation of Vruzki (Connections) in Bulgaria
Tanya Chavdarova (University of Sofia «St. Kl. Ohridski»)
09:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101 MC 4. Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations
Session 3. Cultural and Network Sources of Innovation
Chair: Valery Yakubovich (ESSEC)
Oral Presentations:
Constructing Organization across Institutional Boundaries: The Case of Orthodox University
Ivan Pavluytkin (Higher School of Economics) Cultures and Their Innovations. Results from a Research Program
Michael Hutter (Social Science Research Center, Berlin) Transnational Circuits in the Global Cultural Economy: The Case of Talent Scouts in Fashion Ashley Mears (Boston University)
Structural Folds and Cognitive Distance: Assembling Creative Teams in the Video Game Industry
David Stark (Columbia University) Mathijs de Vaan (Columbia University) Balazs Vedres (Central European Univeristy)
Discussant: Valery Yakubovich (ESSEC)
09:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 311
MC 6. Market Society and Moral Order
Session 3. Market Transitions and Moral Order
Chair: Philippe Steiner (University of Paris Sorbonne)
Oral Presentations:
When Limited Liability was (Still) an Issue — Conflicting Mobilizations in Nineteenth Century England
Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC) Economic Sociology and the Transition to a Market Economy in Russia
Andrea Grant-Friedman (Western Michigan University) The Commodification of Intimacy? Gift-for-Sex Barters in Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk
Christopher Swader (Higher School of Economics) The Myth of New Entrepreneurial Populations the Explosion of Business Startups in France: Statistical Artifact and Transformation of the Workplace
Pierre-Paul Zalio (Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan)
09:30-11:30
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309
MC 8. Capitalist globalization and its alternatives
Session 1. Structures and Contradictions in Capitalist Globalization
Chair: William K. Carroll (University of Victoria, Victoria)
Oral Presentations:
Global Financialisation of Ownership and the Implications for Climate Change Georgina Murray (Griffith University) David Peetz (Griffith University) Empirical Verification of Centre — Periphery Theory (before Crisis 2008)
Janusz Hryniewicz (EUROREG — Centre for European Regional and Local Studies) Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in World History: Alternatives in China's Post-1979 Development
Xinliu Liu (Sussex University)
Distributed Papers:
The Jobs Crisis: The Impact of Globalization, Lean Production and New Technologies on Employment in the AICs
Thomas Janoski (University of Kentucky) David Luke (University of Kentucky)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309
MC 2. Money, Finance and Society
Session 3. Revisiting the Crisis
Chair: Alya Guseva (Boston University)
Oral Presentations:
Diagnosing and Explaining the Global Financial Crisis: Central Banks, Epistemic Authority and Sensemaking
Zeev Rosenhek (Open University of Israel) Accounting for the Financial Crisis: the Struggle over Accounting Rules for Banks in France, Netherlands and Germany
Matthias Thiemann (Columbia University) The Impact of Media on Financial Markets in Times of Global Crisis Roberto Casarin (University Ca' Foscari of Venice) Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia) Stock Markets on Trial: Towards an Understanding of Great Recession Consequences Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta) Pooya Tavakoly (University of Lugano; University of Alberta)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 101
MC 4. Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations
Session 3. Pathways to Institutional and Organizational Change
Chair: Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC)
Oral Presentations:
Market Partitioning and the Organizational Dynamics of «Fringe Banking» in the United States Giacomo Negro (Emory University) Anand Swaminathan (Emory University) The Role of Hybrids in Organizational Transformations: The Case of the Kibbutz Shlomo Getz (Academic College of Emek Jezreel) Robert Hanneman (University of California, Riverside) Raymond Russell (University of California, Riverside) Explaining Poor Innovation Performance in Centraland Eastern Europe: The Role of the Social in Innovation Cooperation
Michelle Crosby-Nagy (Corvinus University of Budapest) Daniel Ihasz-Toth (Corvinus University of Budapest) Social Determinants of Innovative Consumption Practices: Computer and Internet Utilization in Russian Households
Natalia Firsova (Higher School of Economics) Merger Waves, Innovation, and Institutional Change Linda Stearns (Southern Methodist University)
Discussant: Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 311
MC 6. Market Society and Moral Order
Session 3. Markets and Their Publics
Chair: Basak Kus (Wesleyan University)
Oral Presentations:
Fuse-Box Model of Organizational Risk Management in the U.S. Tax Preparation Industry
Roman Galperin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Frankowcy: Sociality with the Swiss Franc and the 3 Month Swiss Franc LIBOR in Contemporary Poland
Mateusz Halawa (The New School for Social Research) Mikolaj Lewicki (Warsaw University) Decoupling and Reassembling Market with Institutions: The French Electricity Market and the European Commitments
Thomas Reverdy (University of Grenoble) The Orders of a Tariff. Moral, Political and Social Controversies on Electricity Pricing in Postwar France (1952-1956)
Alexandre Mallard (Centre de sociologie de l'innovation Mines ParisTech) Guillaume Yon (Centre de sociologie de l'innovation Mines ParisTech)
12:00-14:00
Location: Higher School of Economics (Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 20), Room No. 309
MC 8. Capitalist Globalization and Its Alternatives
Session 2. Alternatives within and Beyond Globalizing Capitalism
Chair: Georgina Murray (Griffith University, Brisbane)
Oral Presentations:
A Little Differently: Ethical Finance between Anti-Capitalist Critique and Market
Arianna Lovera (Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
What does a Speculation-Free Financial System Look Like? Critically Appraising Islamic Finance as an Alternative Financial System
Aaron Pitluck (Central European University & Illinois State University) Embedding Postcapitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production and Mobilization
William K. Carroll (University of Victoria) Performing Diverse Economies and Enacting Economic Alternatives: The Case of Community Supported Fisheries
Kevin St. Martin (Rutgers University)
16:00-18:00
Location: Polytechnical Museum
Plenary Session 4. Knowledge, Technology, and Markets
Chair: to be announced
Speakers:
To be announced
Karin Knorr (University of Chicago) Peripheral Vision: Cognitive Networks in Financial Markets David Stark (Columbia University)
