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Circuit riders and software giants: Economic conventions and the making of a technology market.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Circuit riders and software giants: Economic conventions and the making of a technology market./
Author:	McInerney, Paul-Brian.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4535.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-12A.
Subject:	Sociology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3199571
ISBN:	9780542462702

Circuit riders and software giants: Economic conventions and the making of a technology market.
McInerney, Paul-Brian.

Circuit riders and software giants: Economic conventions and the making of a technology market. - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4535.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2006.

New Institutionalism has made great strides in showing how institutions become the durable structures of social life. However, by striving for higher order explanations, new institutionalists fail to connect the mechanisms of stability with the agents of change. In other words, they fail to connect culture and cognition. To remedy this problem, new institutionalists have come to rely on theories of institutional logics. Such theories, however, overdetermine social action. In contrast, the economic sociology of conventions maintains the tension between agency and structure, between change and durable structures. This dissertation builds on the economic sociology of conventions to explain actors establish and challenge economic conventions to shape markets and coordinate their activities within them. Conventions are implicit rules of action and coordination, which can be justified or denounced from various moral standpoints, called orders of worth. Based on three years of ethnographic and historical research, the dissertation shows how a technologically suffused social movement, calling themselves "Circuit Riders," established conventions around a set of practices and organizational forms, in the process creating a market for technology assistance services in the nonprofit sector. More commercially driven actors, with the support of multinational software firms, reacted with new organizational forms, challenging extant conventions, undermining the hegemony of the founding social movement, and ultimately reshaping the market. The Circuit Riders responded by mobilizing alternative technologies, namely free and open source software, to counter the intrusion of these commercial conventions. This dissertation demonstrates how conventions connect culture and cognition, providing an alternative framework for understanding problems of coordination during the creation of markets.

ISBN: 9780542462702Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017541
Sociology, General.

Circuit riders and software giants: Economic conventions and the making of a technology market.
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