When Market Information Constitutes Fields: Sensemaking of Markets in the Commercial Music Industry
提出市场信息如何构成组织场域的关键机制，以商业音乐产业的Billboard排行榜为例，说明市场信息的范围、方法或政治基调变化如何冲击参与者对场域的理解。
In this paper we outline a key mechanism through which organizational fields are constituted. We suggest that in competitive fields, the market serves as a magnet around which groups of actors consolidate, and that cognition of markets occurs through the creation, distribution, and interpretation of a web of information about the “market.” To illustrate our theory, we present a case study of the Billboard music chart from the commercial music industry to show that changes in either scope, methodology, or political tone with which market information is presented can provide a major jolt to the participants' understanding of their field.