Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

Palo, Teea; Mason, Katy; Roscoe, Philip

doi:10.1177/0170840618789192

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“…To date, the literature has focused on understanding the emergence of a single market (cf. Palo et al, 2020) or the that emerge between adjacent markets (cf. Kjellberg & Olson, 2017;Pflueger et al, 2019) but have seldom considered how infrastructures grow to support organized practices across multiple markets.…”

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Markets, infrastructures and infrastructuring markets

Araújo¹,

Mason

2021

AMS Rev

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Despite a growing understanding of market infrastructures—the rules and socio-material arrangements that enable agreements on the properties of goods, and the calculation of value, equivalence and exchange—we know little of what lies beneath the arrangements that underpin and are implicated in exchange. The socio-material lens has done much to explain how specific assemblages circulate information and goods, but has done little to explain how different infrastructures configure relations between dispersed market practices. Using the history of the development of the market for market research we show how knowledge-based infrastructures constitute markets as knowledge objects: new expertise emerged through alliances between academia, government, and private actors form a new occupation embodied in specialist agencies that set themselves up in an infrastructural relation to marketing practices. Our conceptualization of markets as knowledge objects extends extant understandings of markets by showing how: (1) extant knowledge-based infrastructures are drawn on to construct new markets; (2) infrastructural relations emerge between different markets to constitute multiple systems of provision and demand, leading to an increasingly valuable knowledge infrastructure; and (3) organized practices in one market are often heavily reliant on connections to other markets, including knowledge-based infrastructures such as market research services.

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Markets, infrastructures and infrastructuring markets

Araújo¹,

Mason

2021

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“…First, that markets are sites of political contestation where powerful actors impose their dominance on others in pursuit of ongoing profit (Fligstein, 1996); the STS-inflected study of markets upon which this article draws has begun to recognize the importance of material structures in reproducing such contestations (MacKenzie, 2018). Second, that markets are designed entities, rather than natural occurrences (MacKenzie, 2009), a theme now prominent in organization theory (Brunsson and Jutterström, 2018;Palo et al, 2020). Third, that social and political relations are compounded into the material: there is no material that is not social, and no social that is not material, writes Orlikowski (2007).…”

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How ‘matter matters’ for morality: The case of a stock exchange

Roscoe

2020

Human Relations

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While matter clearly matters to organization theory, its absence from the study of organizational ethics is striking. Despite the obdurate materiality of the workplace, critical scholarship on organizations and morality sees ethics as interpersonal, subjective and embodied. Organizations, meanwhile, are characterized by moral anomie and dysfunction. This article advances our understanding of the material entanglements of organizational morality, drawing on the science and technology studies inflected study of markets to show how moral orders arise in dialectic between the social and the material. It argues that moral orders are entangled in the material infrastructures of organizations. Its empirical case is the founding and development of a small-company focused stock exchange, OFEX, launched in London in 1995, accessed through elite interviews and documentary work. The article seeks to develop our understanding of morality in critical organization studies, to further defend the Weberian notion of ‘ethics of office’ by emphasizing the sociomaterial dimension of organizational morality, and to contribute to an ongoing renaissance of the study of morality as a sociological phenomenon. There are implications for managers and engaged scholars alike.

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“…This follows a broader turn across social theory toward conceptualizing and studying socio-materiality (Bennett & Joyce, 2013 ; Mukerji, 2015 ). The roots of this turn and of market studies lie in actor-network theory (ANT) (Latour, 2005 ) inspired approaches to theorise markets, first in Economic Sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), and then in Management, Marketing, and more recently in Organisation Studies (Çalışkan & Callon, 2010 ; Callon, 2009 ; Cochoy et al, 2016 ; Palo et al, 2018 ).…”

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‘Spatio-market practices’: conceptualising the always spatial dimensions of market making practices

Holmes

Fernandes

Palo

2021

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Socio-material conceptualisations of markets suggest that they are spatial formations. Yet, the everyday practical and spatial dimensions of market making have received little explicit attention. We thus introduce the concept of spatio-market practices, drawing on key ideas in market studies and spatial theory. We argue that examining spatio-market practices (and thus the spatial dimensions of markets) promises to provide fresh insight regarding what it takes to realise markets, their uneven distribution, and what and whom markets are (and are not) designed to serve. To demonstrate what the concept calls for, supports and promises, we take Humphreys’ (2010) influential paper as a starting point and draw on other secondary sources in order to articulate an alternative and spatially-oriented account of the growth and legitimacy of the American casino gambling market. This paper, in turn, contributes a subtle and yet incisive shift in thinking, which supports a more explicit means of exploring markets as spatial formations.

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Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

Cited by 41 publications

References 78 publications

Markets, infrastructures and infrastructuring markets

Markets, infrastructures and infrastructuring markets

How ‘matter matters’ for morality: The case of a stock exchange

‘Spatio-market practices’: conceptualising the always spatial dimensions of market making practices

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