Research on Categories in the Sociology of Organizations / Giacomo Negro / Özgecan Koçak / Greta Hsu
Part II. How Categories Emerge
Legitimizing Illegitimacy: How Creating Market Identity Legitimizes Illegitimate Products / Michael Jensen
Identity Sequences and the Early Adoption Pattern of a Jazz Canon, 1920-1929 / Steven Kahl / Young-Kyu Kim / Damon J. Phillips
Organizational Form Emergence and Competing Professional Schemata of Dutch Accounting, 1884-1939 / Sandy Bogaert / Christophe Boone / Glenn R. Carroll
Part III. How Categories are Used
Crossing a Categorical Boundary: The Implications of Switching from Non-Kosher Wine Production in the Israeli Wine Market / Peter W. Roberts / Tal Simons / Anand Swaminathan
The Consequences of Category Spanning Depend on Contrast / Balázs Kovács / Michael T. Hannan
Organizational Evolution with Fuzzy Technological Formats: Tape Drive Producers in the World Market, 1951-1998 / Glenn R. Carroll / Mi Feng / Gaël Le Mens / David G. McKendrick
Activists, Categories, and Markets: Racial Diversity and Protests Against Walmart Store Openings in America / Hayagreeva Rao / Lori Qingyuan Yue / Paul Ingram
From Categorical Imperative to Learning by Categories: Cost Accounting and New Categorical Practices in American Manufacturing, 1900-1930 / Marc Schneiberg / Gerald Berk
Part IV. How Categories Change
Identity Repositioning: The Case of Liberal Democrats and Audience Attention in British Politics, 1950-2005 / Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan / Filippo Carlo Wezel
The Duality of Niche and Form: The Differentiation of Institutional Space in New York City, 1888-1917 / John W. Mohr / Francesca Guerra-Pearson
Category Currency: The Changing Value of Conformity as a Function of Ongoing Meaning Construction / Mark Thomas Kennedy / Jade (Yu-Chieh) Lo / Michael Lounsbury
