Marc Schneiberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 281032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Schneiberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneiberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3974-5670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 440 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Business as Usual? Conventional Politics, Critical Junctures, and Policy Feedback in the Paycheck Protection Program
Conventional-politics approaches, emphasizing party ideology, electoral dynamics, committee membership, campaign donations, and industry clout, exercise a powerful hold over assessments of public policies and their distributional effects. Emerging from pluralist and business power perspectives, such accounts see “who gets what and why” as the result of how politics and power shape policies, their implementation, and distributional outcomes. This …
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations
Integrating research on communities with economic and organizational sociology, we analyze how organizations' responses to marketization are shaped by their embeddedness in communities and the socio-associational structure of those communities. We address these relations via event-history analyses of mutual conversions to stock corporations among savings and loan associations (SLAs) in the United States, a population of depositor-owned and tradit…
Banking structure, economic resilience and unemployment trajectories in US counties during the great recession
How might the structure of banking affect economic resilience? We address this question by analyzing how the organizational structures of banks and banking markets were associated with unemployment trajectories in local economies during the Great Recession. Two county-level analyses yield convergent results. Increasing branch densities of giant derivative holding banks within local economies were associated with greater surges in unemployment, we…
Social Movements and the Dynamics of Institutions and Organizations
Capitalism in crisis: Organizational perspectives
The financial crisis, which began in mid-2007 and reached a crescendo in September 2008 with the fall of Lehman Brothers and its immediate aftermath, ushered in a severe period of doubt for those who had expounded the benefits of free market capitalism.Gillian Tett, one of the Financial Times' most insightful reporters on the crisis wrote on March 10, 2009 that not only is the financial system plagued with losses of a scale nobody foresaw, but th…
Social Movements and Institutional Analysis
Calls for reintroducing agency, politics and contestation into institutional analysis are now legion, spanning nearly two decades since DiMaggio’s (1988) classic piece, and gaining new urgency as scholars struggle to explain institutional emergence and change. Institutionalists face persistent difficulties in these tasks. Working from arguments about isomorphism, diffusion, or path dependence, they often invoke ad hoc explanations like exogenous …
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century
Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom, globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules and agents. We survey efforts to address this paradox. Building on analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century regulation, research on the current period has produced two critical analytical advances. It has developed new, multilevel conceptions of globalization,…
Social Movements and Organizational Form: Cooperative Alternatives to Corporations in the American Insurance, Dairy, and Grain Industries
How do social movements promote diversity and alternative organizational forms? We address this question by analyzing how cooperative enterprise was affected by the Grange-a leading anticorporate movement in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. State-level analyses across three industries yield three findings. First, the Grange had positive effects on cooperatives and mutuals during the nineteenth-century po…
What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900-1950
Journal Article What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900–1950 Get access Marc Schneiberg Marc Schneiberg Department of Sociology, Reed College, OR, USA Correspondence: Marc Schneiberg, Department of Sociology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis
Institutional theory rests on a rejection of reductionism. Instead of reducing higher-order phenomena to aggregates of behavior, institutional theory reverses this causal imagery. It attributes the behavior of organizations and nation-states to contextual factors, notably organizational fields, national institutional systems, or the emerging global polity, Institutionalists, particularly within sociology, also emphasize specifically cultural mech…
Combining New Institutionalisms: Explaining Institutional Change in American Property Insurance
Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association: Collaborative Learning in American Industry, 1900 to 1925
Between 1900 and 1925, the American economy witnessed a remarkably successful effort to upgrade competition through associations. Unlike the prevailing interpretation of American industrialization, in which associations fell prey to antitrust and collective action problems, we find many associations that reinvented themselves from cartels to developmental associations. This transition marked two previously unrecognized varieties in economic insti…
Rationality and Institutional Contingency: The Varying Politics of Economic Regulation in the Fire Insurance Industry
Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S. states' passage of fire insurance regulation from 1…
Regulating American Industries: Markets, Politics, and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation
This article assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neoinstitutional research. State‐level event history analyses of fire insurance rate regulation from 1906 to 1930 are used. Contrary to capture theory, regulation was not driven simply by firms’ interests in market control. Instead, consistent with interest group analyses, regulation was more likely when anticompany forces—farmers and small bu…
Analytic Narratives
Political and Institutional Conditions for Governance by Association: Private Order and Price Controls in American Fire Insurance
Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America
Down the Backstretch: Racing and the American Dream
Entrance to the Backstretch 2. The Sport of Kings 3. The People 4. The Paddock Ritual 5. Chickens Today, Feathers Tomorrow 6. A Day at the Track 7. Routine, Ritual, and Magic 8. Disguise, Deceit, and Conspiracy 9. Barbers, Butchers, and Gyps 10. Racetrackers 11. Life Stories 12. The Dream Glossary References Index
The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis
Institutional theory rests on a rejection of reductionism. Instead of reducing higher-order phenomena to aggregates of behavior, institutional theory reverses this causal imagery. It attributes the behavior of organizations and nation-states to contextual factors, notably organizational fields, national institutional systems, or the emerging global polity, Institutionalists, particularly within sociology, also emphasize specifically cultural mech…
Social Movements and Organizational Form: Cooperative Alternatives to Corporations in the American Insurance, Dairy, and Grain Industries
How do social movements promote diversity and alternative organizational forms? We address this question by analyzing how cooperative enterprise was affected by the Grange-a leading anticorporate movement in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. State-level analyses across three industries yield three findings. First, the Grange had positive effects on cooperatives and mutuals during the nineteenth-century po…
What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900-1950
Journal Article What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900–1950 Get access Marc Schneiberg Marc Schneiberg Department of Sociology, Reed College, OR, USA Correspondence: Marc Schneiberg, Department of Sociology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century
Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom, globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules and agents. We survey efforts to address this paradox. Building on analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century regulation, research on the current period has produced two critical analytical advances. It has developed new, multilevel conceptions of globalization,…
Regulating American Industries: Markets, Politics, and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation
This article assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neoinstitutional research. State‐level event history analyses of fire insurance rate regulation from 1906 to 1930 are used. Contrary to capture theory, regulation was not driven simply by firms’ interests in market control. Instead, consistent with interest group analyses, regulation was more likely when anticompany forces—farmers and small bu…
Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association: Collaborative Learning in American Industry, 1900 to 1925
Between 1900 and 1925, the American economy witnessed a remarkably successful effort to upgrade competition through associations. Unlike the prevailing interpretation of American industrialization, in which associations fell prey to antitrust and collective action problems, we find many associations that reinvented themselves from cartels to developmental associations. This transition marked two previously unrecognized varieties in economic insti…
Political and Institutional Conditions for Governance by Association: Private Order and Price Controls in American Fire Insurance
Combining New Institutionalisms: Explaining Institutional Change in American Property Insurance
Rationality and Institutional Contingency: The Varying Politics of Economic Regulation in the Fire Insurance Industry
Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S. states' passage of fire insurance regulation from 1…
Banking structure, economic resilience and unemployment trajectories in US counties during the great recession
How might the structure of banking affect economic resilience? We address this question by analyzing how the organizational structures of banks and banking markets were associated with unemployment trajectories in local economies during the Great Recession. Two county-level analyses yield convergent results. Increasing branch densities of giant derivative holding banks within local economies were associated with greater surges in unemployment, we…
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations
Integrating research on communities with economic and organizational sociology, we analyze how organizations' responses to marketization are shaped by their embeddedness in communities and the socio-associational structure of those communities. We address these relations via event-history analyses of mutual conversions to stock corporations among savings and loan associations (SLAs) in the United States, a population of depositor-owned and tradit…
Down the Backstretch: Racing and the American Dream
Entrance to the Backstretch 2. The Sport of Kings 3. The People 4. The Paddock Ritual 5. Chickens Today, Feathers Tomorrow 6. A Day at the Track 7. Routine, Ritual, and Magic 8. Disguise, Deceit, and Conspiracy 9. Barbers, Butchers, and Gyps 10. Racetrackers 11. Life Stories 12. The Dream Glossary References Index
Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America
Political and Institutional Conditions for Governance by Association: Private Order and Price Controls in American Fire Insurance
Analytic Narratives
Regulating American Industries: Markets, Politics, and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation
This article assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neoinstitutional research. State‐level event history analyses of fire insurance rate regulation from 1906 to 1930 are used. Contrary to capture theory, regulation was not driven simply by firms’ interests in market control. Instead, consistent with interest group analyses, regulation was more likely when anticompany forces—farmers and small bu…
Rationality and Institutional Contingency: The Varying Politics of Economic Regulation in the Fire Insurance Industry
Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S. states' passage of fire insurance regulation from 1…
Combining New Institutionalisms: Explaining Institutional Change in American Property Insurance
Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association: Collaborative Learning in American Industry, 1900 to 1925
Between 1900 and 1925, the American economy witnessed a remarkably successful effort to upgrade competition through associations. Unlike the prevailing interpretation of American industrialization, in which associations fell prey to antitrust and collective action problems, we find many associations that reinvented themselves from cartels to developmental associations. This transition marked two previously unrecognized varieties in economic insti…
The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis
Institutional theory rests on a rejection of reductionism. Instead of reducing higher-order phenomena to aggregates of behavior, institutional theory reverses this causal imagery. It attributes the behavior of organizations and nation-states to contextual factors, notably organizational fields, national institutional systems, or the emerging global polity, Institutionalists, particularly within sociology, also emphasize specifically cultural mech…
What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900-1950
Journal Article What's on the path? Path dependence, organizational diversity and the problem of institutional change in the US economy, 1900–1950 Get access Marc Schneiberg Marc Schneiberg Department of Sociology, Reed College, OR, USA Correspondence: Marc Schneiberg, Department of Sociology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Social Movements and Institutional Analysis
Calls for reintroducing agency, politics and contestation into institutional analysis are now legion, spanning nearly two decades since DiMaggio’s (1988) classic piece, and gaining new urgency as scholars struggle to explain institutional emergence and change. Institutionalists face persistent difficulties in these tasks. Working from arguments about isomorphism, diffusion, or path dependence, they often invoke ad hoc explanations like exogenous …
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century
Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom, globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules and agents. We survey efforts to address this paradox. Building on analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century regulation, research on the current period has produced two critical analytical advances. It has developed new, multilevel conceptions of globalization,…
Social Movements and Organizational Form: Cooperative Alternatives to Corporations in the American Insurance, Dairy, and Grain Industries
How do social movements promote diversity and alternative organizational forms? We address this question by analyzing how cooperative enterprise was affected by the Grange-a leading anticorporate movement in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. State-level analyses across three industries yield three findings. First, the Grange had positive effects on cooperatives and mutuals during the nineteenth-century po…
Capitalism in crisis: Organizational perspectives
The financial crisis, which began in mid-2007 and reached a crescendo in September 2008 with the fall of Lehman Brothers and its immediate aftermath, ushered in a severe period of doubt for those who had expounded the benefits of free market capitalism.Gillian Tett, one of the Financial Times' most insightful reporters on the crisis wrote on March 10, 2009 that not only is the financial system plagued with losses of a scale nobody foresaw, but th…
Social Movements and the Dynamics of Institutions and Organizations
Banking structure, economic resilience and unemployment trajectories in US counties during the great recession
How might the structure of banking affect economic resilience? We address this question by analyzing how the organizational structures of banks and banking markets were associated with unemployment trajectories in local economies during the Great Recession. Two county-level analyses yield convergent results. Increasing branch densities of giant derivative holding banks within local economies were associated with greater surges in unemployment, we…
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations
Integrating research on communities with economic and organizational sociology, we analyze how organizations' responses to marketization are shaped by their embeddedness in communities and the socio-associational structure of those communities. We address these relations via event-history analyses of mutual conversions to stock corporations among savings and loan associations (SLAs) in the United States, a population of depositor-owned and tradit…
Business as Usual? Conventional Politics, Critical Junctures, and Policy Feedback in the Paycheck Protection Program
Conventional-politics approaches, emphasizing party ideology, electoral dynamics, committee membership, campaign donations, and industry clout, exercise a powerful hold over assessments of public policies and their distributional effects. Emerging from pluralist and business power perspectives, such accounts see “who gets what and why” as the result of how politics and power shape policies, their implementation, and distributional outcomes. This …
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Social science (5 works)