In her groundbreaking scholarship on intimacy and economy, Viviana Zelizer coined the
concept of relational work, or efforts in matching social relations with economic transactions …

Organizational scholars have treated emotions mostly as an individual‐level phenomenon,
with limited theorisation of emotions as an important component in social embeddedness. In …

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a
future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that …

Investors are constantly aware of the behaviour of stock markets. This affects their emotions
and motivates them to buy or sell shares. Financial sentiment analysis allows us to …

Starting from the assumption that decision situations in economic contexts are characterized
by fundamental uncertainty, this article argues that the decision-making of intentionally …

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration
to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by …

While some argue that the rise of software automation threatens workers with obsolescence,
others assert that new complementarities between humans and software systems are likely …

Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of
capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful …

This article presents hiring as an emotional process rooted in interpersonal evaluation.
Drawing from Randall Collins's theory of interaction ritual, the author offers a qualitative case …

This paper attempts to clarify the concept of relational work for understanding economic life
as proposed by Viviana Zelizer. To do so, it first compares the concept to similar notions …