Review Essay: On the Problematic Relationship between Economy of Conventions and Neoinstitutionalism

Authors

  • Michael Siegfried Grüttner Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-14.2.1953

Keywords:

economy of conventions, coordination, carbon emission trade, heterogeneity, theoretical empirical coherence

Abstract

In her book on the justification of economic action, Lisa KNOLL provides one of the most extensive and ambitious empirical applications of the Economy of Conventions so far available in the German language. The book focuses on the practical treatment of "heterogeneity" regarding different conceptions of rationality and their actualization in economic organizations. The author undertakes to reconstruct the implementation of the CO2 emissions trade in municipal utilities. This empirical study prompted the author to develop and apply a combination of neoinstitutionalism and the economy of conventions. This choice of methods renders the study particularly interesting. This review will first introduce the book and its strengths, before focusing on the author's chosen combination and examining how far it succeeds and in how far the study's present strengths could have been improved, taking into consideration the coherent fitting of theory and method (DIAZ-BONE 2010, 2012a).

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1302158

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Author Biography

Michael Siegfried Grüttner, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

Michael GRÜTTNER studierte von 2007 bis 2012 Sozialökonomie an der Universität Hamburg sowie Sozialökonomik an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Seit Oktober 2012 ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nürnberg. Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen in der Soziologie des (Arbeits-) Marktes, der Ökonomie der Konventionen als sozialökonomischem Paradigma sowie der sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie (Verhältnis von Theorie und Methode).

Published

2013-03-24

How to Cite

Grüttner, M. S. (2013). Review Essay: On the Problematic Relationship between Economy of Conventions and Neoinstitutionalism. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-14.2.1953

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FQS Reviews