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100			_aSimanyi, Lena, and Pellandini Vargha, Zsuzsanna _929486
245			_aLegal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets
260			_aOrganization Studies
300			_a42(6), Jun, 2021: p.867-889
520			_aResearch into the creation of markets highlights the importance of law-making, seen to express relations between stakeholders in emerging organizational fields. Less understood is the role of existing regulation, despite related work on path-dependency. We unpack the role of extant laws by analysing consecutive attempts to establish the mortgage market in post-socialist Hungary, mobilizing the anthropology of law and actor-network methods. Based on interviews and archival documents, we find, first, that existing laws exert agency in the market-building process not only through abstract legal ‘traditions’ but through technical features which may resist the market arrangements proposed by political-economic coalitions. Second, the resistance of law can vary based on whether its spokespersons (guardians of legal consistency) become ‘market engineers’ under specific organizational configurations. We theorize this agency with the concept of ‘legal infrastructure’, and show how it acts as a non-human organizer of markets, ensuring compatibility across the economy. – Reproduced
650			_aHungary, Infrastructure, Institutionalism, Law, Market-building, Mortgage _927628
773			_aOrganization Studies
906			_aINSTITUTIONALISM
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