Adam Reich

Examines the different moral-market understandings and practices in the context of a single market-based organizational field. Highlights the contradictory character of processes of commodification, as different historically institutionalized ideas conflict, in different ways, with the market logic that increasingly organizes the field as a whole. 

Argues that young men's participation in crime constitutes a game through which they achieve “outsider masculinity.” Illustrates how these same youths are forced to reconcile their criminal practices with a new game and new “insider masculinity” enforced by guards and administrators in prison.

Argues that unions must weave together economic and cultural power in order to ensure their continued relevancy in the postindustrial world. Discusses how unions must engage with workers' emotional investments in their work and contend with the kind of moral authority that Santa Rosa Hospital leaders exerted to dissuade workers from organizing, as well as connect labor's project to broader conceptions of the public good.

Discusses the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market – hospital  care. Explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.

Explores the effects of the electronic medical record (EMR) on the power of the medical profession. Discusses twenty-five in-depth interviews with administrators and physicians across three departments of a large, U.S. integrated health system. Analyzes variation in the extent to which practitioners’ professional identities are reconciled with bureaucratic subordination across the different departments studies.