David Stark

ThinkersSociologist

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Economic sociology of socialist and postsocialist firms

Ideas

Mirrored opposition of internal labor markets. Firms in market economies answer uncertainty about labor with internal bureaucratic rules, while socialist firms in a bureaucratic environment answer it with internal market transactions, as in Hungary's subcontracting units inside the enterprise. Caveat: Read in the abstract only.

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