Edited by Olivier Favereau, Professor of Economics, University of Paris, Nanterre and Emmanuel Lazega, Department of Sociology, Sciences Po, CSO-CNRS, IUF, France

'One of the most exciting developments in recent European economic thought is the emergence of the approach known as 'the economics of convention'. No better introduction to this school of thought, with its interesting mixture of economics and sociology, could be had than this anthology, which is edited by economist Olivier Favereau and sociologist Emmanuel Lazega.'

• Contents: Introduction Emmanuel Lazega and Olivier Favereau1. No Man is an Island: The Research Program of a Social Capital Theory Henk Flap2. Conventionalist Approaches to Enterprise François Eymard-Duvernay3. Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Exchange: Convergence Between New Institutional Economics and the Economics of ConventionsChristian Bessy4. Transaction Cost Economics and Governance Structures: Applications, Developments and Perspectives Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier5. Organizational Ecology David N. Barron6. Interdependent Entrepreneurs and the Social Discipline of their Cooperation: A Research Programme for Structural Economic Sociology in a Society of Organizations Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier7. Employer/Employee Relationship Regulation and the Lessons of School/Work Transition in France Alain Degenne8. Where Do Markets Come From? From (Quality) Conventions! Olivier Favereau, Olivier Biencourt and François Eymard-Duvernay9. Market Profiles: A Tool Suited to Quality Orders? An Empirical Analysis of Road Haulage and the Theatre Olivier Biencourt and Daniel Urrutiaguer10. Solidarity, its Microfoundations and Macrodependence. A Framing Approach Siegwart LindenbergConclusion: Quality is a System Property. DownstreamHarrison C. WhiteIndex

Edited by Olivier Favereau, Professor of Economics, University of Paris, Nanterre and Emmanuel Lazega, Department of Sociology, Sciences Po, CSO-CNRS, IUF, France

'One of the most exciting developments in recent European economic thought is the emergence of the approach known as 'the economics of convention'. No better introduction to this school of thought, with its interesting mixture of economics and sociology, could be had than this anthology, which is edited by economist Olivier Favereau and sociologist Emmanuel Lazega.'

• Contents: Introduction Emmanuel Lazega and Olivier Favereau1. No Man is an Island: The Research Program of a Social Capital Theory Henk Flap2. Conventionalist Approaches to Enterprise François Eymard-Duvernay3. Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Exchange: Convergence Between New Institutional Economics and the Economics of ConventionsChristian Bessy4. Transaction Cost Economics and Governance Structures: Applications, Developments and Perspectives Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier5. Organizational Ecology David N. Barron6. Interdependent Entrepreneurs and the Social Discipline of their Cooperation: A Research Programme for Structural Economic Sociology in a Society of Organizations Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier7. Employer/Employee Relationship Regulation and the Lessons of School/Work Transition in France Alain Degenne8. Where Do Markets Come From? From (Quality) Conventions! Olivier Favereau, Olivier Biencourt and François Eymard-Duvernay9. Market Profiles: A Tool Suited to Quality Orders? An Empirical Analysis of Road Haulage and the Theatre Olivier Biencourt and Daniel Urrutiaguer10. Solidarity, its Microfoundations and Macrodependence. A Framing Approach Siegwart LindenbergConclusion: Quality is a System Property. DownstreamHarrison C. WhiteIndex

Edited by Olivier Favereau, Professor of Economics, University of Paris, Nanterre and Emmanuel Lazega, Department of Sociology, Sciences Po, CSO-CNRS, IUF, France

'One of the most exciting developments in recent European economic thought is the emergence of the approach known as 'the economics of convention'. No better introduction to this school of thought, with its interesting mixture of economics and sociology, could be had than this anthology, which is edited by economist Olivier Favereau and sociologist Emmanuel Lazega.'

• Contents: Introduction Emmanuel Lazega and Olivier Favereau1. No Man is an Island: The Research Program of a Social Capital Theory Henk Flap2. Conventionalist Approaches to Enterprise François Eymard-Duvernay3. Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Exchange: Convergence Between New Institutional Economics and the Economics of ConventionsChristian Bessy4. Transaction Cost Economics and Governance Structures: Applications, Developments and Perspectives Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier5. Organizational Ecology David N. Barron6. Interdependent Entrepreneurs and the Social Discipline of their Cooperation: A Research Programme for Structural Economic Sociology in a Society of Organizations Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier7. Employer/Employee Relationship Regulation and the Lessons of School/Work Transition in France Alain Degenne8. Where Do Markets Come From? From (Quality) Conventions! Olivier Favereau, Olivier Biencourt and François Eymard-Duvernay9. Market Profiles: A Tool Suited to Quality Orders? An Empirical Analysis of Road Haulage and the Theatre Olivier Biencourt and Daniel Urrutiaguer10. Solidarity, its Microfoundations and Macrodependence. A Framing Approach Siegwart LindenbergConclusion: Quality is a System Property. DownstreamHarrison C. WhiteIndex