Economic Action and Social Structure: the Problem of Embeddedness

  • Марк Грановеттер
Keywords: trust, embeddedness, economic behavior, oversocialized and undersocialized concept of economic action, fraud

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of embeddedness of economic behavior in the social relations. This part of the text contains the theoretical definitions of embeddedness. The author analyzes over- and half-socialized concepts of human action in sociology and in economics. The issues of trust and fraud in economic life are in the focus. 

Published
2010-12-31
How to Cite
ГрановеттерМ. (2010). Economic Action and Social Structure: the Problem of Embeddedness . Journal of Economic Sociology, 3(3), 44-58. https://doi.org/10.17323/1726-3247-2002-3-44-58
Section
New Translations