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2006
Simmons, B, F Dobbin, and G Garrett. 2006. “The International Diffusion of Liberalism”. Special issue of International Organization 60 (Fall):781-810. pdf
Zorn, D, F Dobbin, J Dierkes, and M Kwok. 2006. “The New New Firm: Power and Sense-making in the Construction of Shareholder Value”. Nordiske Organisationsstudier 3.
2005
Dobbin, F. 2005. “Is Globalization Making Us All the Same? Review essay on Sanford Jacoby, The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States”. British Journal of Industrial Relations 43:569-576. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2005. “Review of Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin, Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation”. American Journal of Sociology 111 (1):931-933. pdf
F.Dobbin,, Neil Smelser, and Richard Swedberg. 2005. “Comparative and Historical Perspectives in Economic Sociology”. Pp. 26-48 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation. pdf

Reprinted (in Russian) in The Journal of Economic Sociology 17 (3): 37-81. 2016.

Dobbin, F, and D Zorn. 2005. “Corporate Malfeasance and the Myth of Shareholder Value”. Political Power and Social Theory 17:179-198. pdf

Responses:

R. Swedberg "On The Importance of Analyzing Economic Scandals and Contemporary Economic Institutions: A Comment on Dobbin and Zorn."  199-206.

E.S. Clemmens. "The Power of Ideas? The Possibility of a Myth of Shareholder Value." 207-212.

M. Mizruchi and H. Kimeldorf. "The Historical Context of Shareholder Value Capitalism." 213-222.

N. Fligstein. "The End of (Shareholder Value) Ideology?" 223-228.

F. Dobbin and D. Zorn. "The Promise of Economic Sociology." 229-233

2004
Dobbin, F. 2004. “Review of Arthur L. Stinchcombe, When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations”. American Journal of Sociology 109 (5):1244-1246. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2004. “Review of Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism”. Theory and Society 33 (1):117-122. pdf
Zorn, D, F Dobbin, J Dierkes, and M Kwok. 2004. “Managing Investors: How Financial Markets Reshaped the American Firm”. Pp. 269-289 in The Sociology of Financial Markets, edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alexandru Preda. London: Oxford University Press. pdf
The Sociology of the Economy
Dobbin, F. 2004. The Sociology of the Economy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

F. Dobbin. "Introduction:The Sociology of the Economy." 1-26. pdf

Chinese Edition, 2008, published by the Shanghai People's Press.

The New Economic Sociology: A Reader
Dobbin, F. 2004. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Dobbin, F. "The Sociological View of the Economy." 1-46. pdf

Chinese Edition, 2013, published by the Shanghai People's Press.

Dobbin, F. 2004. “How Institutions Create Ideas: Notions of Public and Private Efficiency from Early French and American Railroading”. L'Année de la Régulation 815-50. pdf
2002
F.Dobbin,. 2002. “Do the Social Sciences Shape Corporate Anti-Discrimination Practice?: State Permeability and Disciplinary Influence in the United States and France.”. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 23 (3):829-863. pdf

 

Translated by Elodie Béthoux and Caroline Vincensini as “Les Sciences Socales Façonnent-elles Les Pratiques de Lutte Contre les Discriminations des Entreprises?  Une Comparaison des cas Etats-unien et Français.”  Terrains et Travaux: Revue de Sciences Sociales (2016) 29(2):131-172.  

 

Dobbin, F. 2002. “Review of Neil Fligstein, The Architecture of Markets”. Contexts 164-65. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2002. “Is America Becoming More Exceptional?: How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship”. Pp. 51-77 in Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change, edited by Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Publisher's Version pdf
2001
Dobbin, F. 2001. “Review of Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges, Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America, and Verne E. Hauck Arbitrating Sex Discrimination Grievances”. Work and Occupations 28:270-273. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2001. “Review of Howard Aldrich, Organizations Evolving”. Social Forces 79:1521-1523. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2001. “Review of James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou, The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes”. Contemporary Sociology 30:479-480. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2001. “Review of Philippe d’Iribarne, Alain Henry, Jean- Pierre Segal, Sylvie Chevrier, Tatjana Globokar, Cultures et mondialisation: gérer par-delà les frontières”. Sociologie du Travail 43:559-561. pdf
Dobbin, F. 2001. “How Institutional Economics is Killing Micro-economics”. Economic Sociology Listserve. pdf

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