The difference between markets and organizations is often exaggerated. In this book empirical examples are used for describing and analyzing how markets are organized, and the similarities and differences between market organization and the organization of formal organizations.

1: Markets, Organizations, and Organization. 2: The Organization of Markets 3: Creating a Market Bureaucracy: The Case of a Railway Market 4: Primary Healthcare: What Type of Market and What Type of Organization? 5: Experience-Based Learning and Market Change 6: When Sellers Create Markets: Dilemmas in Markets for Professional Services 7: 'The Most Regulated Deregulated Market in the World'. Sellers Organizing across Markets 8: Markets as Open Systems: Organizing and Reorganizing a Financial Market 9: Markets, Trust, and the Construction of Macro-Organizations 10: Shaping the Consumer: A Century of Consumer Guidance 11: When Market Organization Does Not Help: High Ambitions and Challenges in the Market for Eldercare 12: Dealing with Asymmetric Information: Organizing and Reorganizing a Market for Child Insurance 13: Reform and Rescue: International Organizations and the Organization of Markets 14: Organizing Marketplaces: The Constitution of Trade Shows in a Cutting-Edge Industry 15: Handling Opposing Market Logics: Public Procurement in Practice 16: From a Free to a Pure Market: The History of Organizing the Swedish Pipe and Tube Market 17: Multiplicity, Complexity, and Recurrent Change 18: Organizing and Reorganizing Markets and Formal Organizations: A Comparison

Opens up new area for research by using organization theory for analyzing markets Offers a complex and realistic view of how markets are formed and changed Contributes to research on partial organization

Nils Brunsson is Professor of Management at Uppsala University and Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research) at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Stockholm University. He has held chairs in management at the Stockholm School of Economics and at Uppsala University. Brunsson has published almost 30 books in the field of organization studies as well as numerous articles. He has studied topics such as organizational decision-making, administrative reform and standardization. His current research interests include the organization of markets, partial organization, meta-organizations and the construction of competition. Brunsson is an honorary member of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS). Mats Jutterström is a researcher at Score and SIR (Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research), and teaches at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research concerns organizations and markets. In his dissertation about the construction of actorhood in complex decision processes he reported from studies of how firms carried out lobbying in the EU. He has studied the diffusion and implementation of corporate social responsibility and compared it to other management fashions. His current research interests include the organization of markets and the encounter of different institutional logics.

Opens up new area for research by using organization theory for analyzing markets Offers a complex and realistic view of how markets are formed and changed Contributes to research on partial organization