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Author Schiller-Merkens, Simone

Title The Contested Moralities of Markets
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Research in the Sociology of Organizations Ser. ; v. 63
Research in the Sociology of Organizations Ser
Contents Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Moral Struggles in and Around Markets; Simone Schiller-Merkens and Philip Balsiger Part II. Empirical Struggles Around Morally Contested Markets Chapter 2. Contested Markets: Morality, Market Devices and Vulnerable Population; Philippe Steiner and Marie Trespeuch Chapter 3. Relational Work as a Market Device: An Analysis of the Contested "Voluntary" Carbon Offset Market; Alice Valiergue Chapter 4. "This Market Changed My Life": Aspirations and Morality in Markets for Counterfeits; Matías Dewey Coping with Moral Struggles in Moral(ized) Markets Chapter 5. The Moralization of Labor: Establishing the Social Responsibility of Employers for Disabled Workers; Eva Nadai and Alan Canonica Chapter 6. Playing the Double Game: How Ecopreneurs Cope with Opposing Field Logics in Moralized Markets; Lisa Suckert Chapter 7. Ethical Banks Between Moral Self-Commitment and Economic Expansion; Sarah Lenz and Sighard Neckel Moral Entrepreneurship and Moral Struggles in the Market Field Chapter 8. Protest Rhetoric's Appeal: How Brands as Moral Entrepreneurs Recruit the Media into Moral Struggles; Verena E. Wieser, Andrea Hemetsberger, and Marius K. Luedicke Chapter 9. Activists as Moral Entrepreneurs: How Shareholder Activists Brought Active Ownership to Switzerland; Daniel Waeger and Sébastien Mena Chapter 10. Contesting the Digital Economy: Struggles over Uber in Poland; Marcin Serafin Part III. Chapter 11. Reflections; Patrik Aspers
Summary Highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, this volume advances our current understanding of markets and their contested moralities
Notes Print version record
Subject Financial institutions -- Moral and ethical aspects
Capital market -- Moral and ethical aspects
Financial institutions -- Social aspects
Sociology: work & labour.
Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
Financial institutions -- Moral and ethical aspects
Financial institutions -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Balsiger, Philip
ISBN 9781787691193
1787691195
1787691217
9781787691216