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Chapter 27 - A Vocabulary for Analysing Market Change Processes

from Part VI - Broadening the Perspectives in Market Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

By
Hans Kjellberg
Edited by
Susi Geiger ,
Katy Mason ,
Neil Pollock ,
Philip Roscoe ,
Annmarie Ryan ,
Stefan Schwarzkopf  and
Pascale Trompette
Susi Geiger
Affiliation:
University College Dublin
Katy Mason
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Neil Pollock
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Philip Roscoe
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Annmarie Ryan
Affiliation:
University of Limerick
Stefan Schwarzkopf
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
Pascale Trompette
Affiliation:
Université de Grenoble
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Summary

How markets develop and change has been and continues to be a central theme in Market Studies. In this chapter I use theoretical ideas about change processes in general to elaborate on the markets as practice model and develop a conceptual vocabulary for analysing market change. Specifically, I combine three different theories of change (teleological, dialectical, and evolutionary) with findings from empirical studies of market change to identify six distinct, yet generic subprocesses of market change: market mimesis, market controversies, market management, market interferences, market change loops, and market development sequences. I elaborate on and illustrate each of these subprocesses and discuss how they interrelate to form ‘global’ market change processes.

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markets as practicechangeprocess ontologygrand challenges
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Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action
 , pp. 438 - 454
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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