[lbo-talk] The Progressive Peacenik Myth

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Jon Johanning
> A very persuasive theory! Glad I heard about it (I really should go to
> business school and learn all of these cool theories that are coming
> out).

There is an alternative to business school - economic sociology.  It
institutionalist (as opposed to the rat choice mantra) in its core
behavioral model and critical and irreverent in demeanor.  Think of it
as Dilbert with extensive references.  The bosses really hate it.

A good place to start is Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg, (eds),
The handbook of economic sociology, Princeton U. Press, 1994. Check also
Charles Perrow, Complex organizations: a critical essay, McGraw Hill
1986; Mark Grannovetter abd Richard Swedberg (eds.) The Sociology of
economic life, Westview Press, 1992; and Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio
(eds), Structures of capital; the social organization of t eeconomy,
Cambridge U Press 1991.

Wojtek