Conventions and structures in economic organization : markets networks and hierarchies This book contributes to the current rapprochement between economics and sociology. It examines the fact that individuals use rules and interdependencies to forward their own interests while living in social environments where everyone does the same. The authors argue that to construct durable organizations and viable markets they need to be able to handle both. However thus far economists and sociologists have not been able to reconcile the relationship between these two types of constraints on economic activity 1. No man is an island : the research program of a social capital theory Henk Flap 2. Conventionalist approaches to enterprise François Eymard Duvernay 3. Institutional embeddedness of economic exchange : convergence between new institutional economics and the economics of conventions Christian Bessy 4. Transaction cost economics and governance structures : applications developments and perspectives Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier 5. Organizational ecology David N. Barron 6. 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 Mounier 7. Employer employee relationship regulation and the lessons of school work transition in France Alain Degenne 8. Where do markets come from : from (quality) conventions! Olivier Favereau Olivier Biencourt and François Eymard Duvernay 9. Market profiles : a tool suited to quality orders : an empirical analysis of road haulage and the theatre Olivier Biencourt and Daniel Urrutiaguer 10. Solidarity its microfoundations and macrodependence : a framing approach Siegwart Lindenberg