Moral struggles in and around markets abound in contemporary societies where markets have become the dominant form of economic coordination. The present volume advances our current understanding of markets by highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets. It traces the creation, reproduction and change of underlying moral orders and reveals the role of status and power differentials, alliances and political strategies as well as the general cultural, social and political contexts in which the struggles unfold. The contributions to this volume reflect the 'moral turn' that can currently be observed in organization studies and economic sociology, and connect to recent developments in the sociology of morality.

Der soziologische Institutionalismus zahlt auch unter der Bezeichnung Neoinstitutionalismus zu den fuhrenden Theorien der Organisationsforschung. Im Zentrum des derzeitigen Erkenntnisinteresses steht die Frage des institutionellen Wandels. Simone Schiller-Merkens stellt den aktuellen Forschungsstand dar, arbeitet die wesentlichen theoretischen Problemfelder der Auseinandersetzung heraus und entwickelt einen praxistheoretischen Losungsansatz.