studies in sociology, organizations and strategy at the crossroads Durrand, Rodolphe editor. Granqvist, Nina editor. Tyllström, Anna editor. text enk 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource (380) pages. Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during the past 40 years. This volume contains ten essays on categorization authored by some of the world's leading scholars within sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research. It opens with revisiting the influential theory of the categorical imperative, and moves on to present various accounts of the social processes that form part of categorization and elaboration of their consequences. Together, the different chapters effectively show that categorization is a process, tightly connected to actors involved and their specific acts, the characteristics of the entity being categorized, and the context and timing informing these activities. As such, it complements the earlier cognitive perspectives by discussing the evaluative, social, and political manifestations of categorization. Prelims -- Section I: Introduction -- Section II: Categorization as politics and strategy -- Section III: Categorizing the unknown -- Section IV: Times and places of categorization -- About the authors -- Index. edited by Rodolphe Durand, Nina Granqvist, Anna Tyllström. Includes index. Organizational sociology Organizational behavior Business & Economics Organizational Behavior Organizational theory & behaviour HM786 .F76 2017 308 9781787142381 (e-book) 9781787143395 (ePUB) https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X201751 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X201751 UtOrBLW 170612 20251029120816.0 ovld002108168