Financial markets in organization theory and economic sociology

As the organization theory field shifted its attention toward organizational relationships with the environment and market processes, scholars started to study directly financial markets and financial processes, leveraging existing theories (institutional theory, embeddedness, culture, status, social influence) and developing novel ones (categories, performativity). In doing so, their work increasingly converged with the theoretical and empirical interests of economic sociologists, and thus the following bibliography cover studies in both organization theory and economic sociology. Many of the studies listed below were primarily concerned with advancing a specific theoretical agenda, rather than explaining financial markets per se, but in this bibliography we organized them to better appreciate how these findings can collectively further our understanding of financial markets, and their impact on corporations and society. In defining the scope of this bibliography, we included articles published both in sociology and management journals but did not review the vast literature published in economics, finance, and accounting. In terms of topics, we included studies focused on the financial sector, but excluded studies of bank lending, venture capital, and IPOs, as they were mostly focused on understanding these processes from the corporate perspective, rather than from the one of the financial sector and financial markets.