Kategoria: Nauki społeczne / Socjologia

Social Team Game: Institutionalising New Economic Phenomena

autorzy:

Joanna Szalacha-Jarmużek

Rok wydania:2025 Nr wydania:Wydanie pierwsze Liczba stron:348 ISBN:978-83-231-6300-8 eISBN:978-83-231-6301-5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-6301-5

OPIS How does economic order emerge from dispersed individual actions? Why do certain economic arrangements come to be perceived as natural, self-evident, and beyond contestation? And how do actors with divergent interests nonetheless contribute to the formation of shared rules, norms, and institutions?

Positioned at the intersection of economic sociology and neoinstitutional theory, this book revisits classical questions of collective action, cooperation, and social order while offering a novel analytical perspective on institutional change. Drawing inspiration from foundational contributions by Mancur Olson, Elinor Ostrom, and neoinstituional theories, the author advances an original conceptual framework – the Social Team Game (STG) – to explain how deliberate yet dispersed actions of heterogeneous actors can converge into stable economic institutions oriented toward a common good.

Empirically, the book applies this framework to two underexplored but highly consequential phenomena in contemporary economic life: cashless payments and economic patriotism in Poland. Through these case studies, it demonstrates how new economic institutions are actively shaped, stabilised, and diffused across organisational fields, influencing consumer behaviour, business strategies, and broader normative frameworks. While analytically distinct, both cases reveal shared sociological dynamics of institutional formation, collective mobilisation, and the articulation of the common good.

SPIS TREŚCI Content

Introduction / 9

Challenges / 15

Main research questions and hypotheses / 22

Invitation and disclaimer / 24

Acknowledgments and funding / 27

Chapter 1. Neoinstitutionalism – Main Assumptions

and Interpretations / 29

The institution – tradition and a new perspective / 30

Institutionalisation as the becoming of society / 35

What neoinstitutionalism assumes – a framework overview / 40

Social actors and agential aspects of institutionalisation / 48

Values, norms, and sanctions in institutional analysis / 54

The issue of interests in neoinstitutional analysis / 58

Concept of organisational field and institutional logics / 61

The concept of institutional game / 66

Summary / 68

Chapter 2. From Collective Action Framework to Institution. Introducing the Social Team Game Model / 75

Introduction / 75

Collective action, social trust, and the problem of cooperation / 76

Common-pool goods and conditions for collective action / 84

Social trust, social capital, and public entrepreneurship / 88

Institutional Analysis and Development / 93

Towards a new framework / 96

Social Team Game – a model / 97

Summary / 108

Chapter 3. From Currency to Code: Cashlessness as a Social Institution in Contemporary Poland / 111

Introduction / 111

Characteristics of the organisational field and actors / 114

Institutional work on cashlessness / 123

Study methodology / 139

Institutionalisation of cashlessness in Poland – the role and experience of entrepreneurs / 141

Social characteristics of respondents / 141

Scheme of analysis / 145

Values / 146

Norms / 164

Sanctions / 177

The role of SMEs in the institutionalisation of cashlessness / 187

The common good in the context of cashlessness / 189

Building the health and fear narratives / 193

Anxieties and actions of entrepreneurs / 199

Institutionalisation of cashlessness in Poland – the role and experience of customers during the pandemic / 205

Universality of experience / 209

Safety / 215

Fear and responsiveness – norms, values, and sanctions / 217

Main conclusions / 226

Summary – cashless payments as a social team game / 228

Chapter 4. Made in Poland: How Economic Patriotism Shapes Consumers and Companies / 235

Introduction / 235

Consumer patriotism – concepts and state of research / 236

Country of origin effect / 237

Consumer ethnocentrism and conscious consumption / 239

Economic Patriotism – the concept / 244

State of research on consumer and economic patriotism in Poland / 247

Characteristics of the organisational field and actors / 254

Institutional work in the field of economic patriotism / 260

NGOs towards patriotism in the economy / 262

Public institutions’ patriotism in the economy / 280

Corporations towards patriotism in the economy / 285

Blogs and economic patriotism / 298

Summary – economic patriotism as a Social Team Game / 303

Chapter 5. Social Team Games in Economic Fields / 311

The institutional dimension of new solutions / 314

Between the common good and particular interests / 317

Social Team Game – the relationship and influence model / 322

Social Team Game – the future and possible developments / 328

References / 331

List of figures / 345

List of tables / 347

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