טלפון: 04-8240996
פנימי: 52996
משרד: 7017, קומה 7, בניין רבין
שעות קבלה: בתיאום מראש
סוציולוגיה כלכלית; סוציולוגיה של שווקים; סוציולוגיה של עבודה
A. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Authored Books
Published
1. Darr, A. (2006). Selling Technology: The Changing Shape of Sales in an Information
Economy. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. [143 pages].
2. Darr, A. (2020) Shared Work Spaces: Jewish and Arab Workers in Israel. Jerusalem: The
Israel Democracy Institute [Hebrew, 230 pages].
3. Darr, A. (2023) Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian-Arabs and Jews in the
Israeli Workplace. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. [210 pages].
A. Articles in Refereed Journals
Published
1. Darr, A. 1999. Conflict and Conflict Resolution in a Democratic Workplace: The Case of
the ‘Tal’ Taxi Station. Human Relations, Vol. 52, 3:279-301.
https://doi.org/10.1177/001872679905200301
2. Darr. A. 2000. Technical Labour in an Engineering Boutique: Interpretive
Frameworks of Sales and R&D Engineers. Work, Employment and Society, 14, 2:
205-222.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170022118374
3. Darr A. and Lewin, A. 2001. “Regimes of Justice in the Workplace: The
Case of Israeli Taxi Co-operatives.” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 22, 3: 383-407.
3a. [Re-printed in Work and Organizations in Israel (2004), Harpaz and Samuel (eds.),
Transaction Books]
https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X01223004
4. Darr, A. and Stern, R. 2002. “Coopting Change Toward Industrial Democracy:
Professionals as Agents of Structural Constraint.” Sociological Inquiry, 72, 2: 171-194.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-682X.00012
5. Darr, A. & Scarselletta, M. 2002. “Technicians, Clients and Professional Authority:
Structured Interactions and Identity Formation in Technical Work.” New Technology, Work
and Employment, 17, 1: 60-72.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-005X.00094
6. Darr, A. 2002. “The Technicisation of Sales Work: An Ethnographic Study in the US
Electronics Industry.” Work, Employment and Society, 16, 1: 47-67.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170222119245
7. Darr. A. 2003. “Gifting Practices and Interorganizational Relations: Constructing
Obligation Networks in the Electronics Sector.” Sociological Forum, 18, 1: 31-51.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022650627892
8. Darr, A. and Talmud, I. 2003. “The Structure of Knowledge and Seller-Buyer
Networks in Markets for Emergent Technologies”. Organization Studies, 24, 3: 435-453.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840603024003911
9. Darr, A. 2003 “Control and Autonomy among Knowledge Workers in Sales: An
Employee Perspective” Employee Relations, 25, 1:31-41.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01425450310453508
10. #Rothchild, L., and Darr, A. 2005 “Technological Incubators and the Social
Construction of Innovation Networks: an Israeli Case Study.” Technovation, 25: 59-67.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4972(03)00064-6
11. Darr, A., Harrison, M. I., Shakked, L., & Shalom, N. (2003). Physicians’ and nurses’
reactions to electronic medical records: managerial and occupational implications. Journal of
Health Organization and Management, 17(5), 349-359.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14777260310505129
12. Darr, A. and #Rothchild L. 2004 “Social Capital and the Absorption of
Immigrant Scientists and Engineers into Israeli Communities of Experts” Israel
Studies, 9, 2:106-121.
https://doi.org/10.2979/isr.2004.9.2.106
13. Warhurst C. and Darr, A. (2006) “From Welfare to Profit: The Transformation of Trade
Union-Owned Firms in Israel.” Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 27, 2:285-309.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X06063102
14. Darr, A. (2007) “The Mutual Weaving of Obligation Networks in Mass Industrial
Markets.” Current Sociology, Vol. 55, 1:41-59.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392107070133
15. Darr, A. and Warhurst, C. (2008) "Assumptions, Assertions and the Need for Evidence:
Debugging Debates about Knowledge Workers". Current Sociology, vol. 56, 1:25-45.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392107084377
16. Darr, A. and Zer-Gutman, L. (2007) "Lawyers, Public relations and the Media: A
Changing Barter Economy within a Community of Practice." International Journal of the
Legal Profession, vol. 14, 3: 215-237.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09695950802015807
17. Darr, A. and Lewin, A. (2008) " The Implementation of Democratic Justice Regimes in
the Israeli Taxi Sector: Economic Imperative or Ethnic Origin?" Journal of Socio-Economics
37, 5:2072-2079.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2007.10.013
18. Darr, A. (2009) "Palestinian and Jews at Work: On the Sociology of Work Practice in
Israel and its Contribution to the Analysis of the Conflict." Israeli Sociology, 10(2): 287-306
[Hebrew].
19. Bird-David, N. and Darr, A. (2009) "Commodity, Gift, and Mass-Gift: On Gift-
Commodity Hybrids in Advanced Mass Consumption Cultures." Economy and Society,
38(2): 304-325.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085140902786777
20. Darr, A. (2011)"Sales Work and the Situated Constitution of Legitimate Economic
Exchange." Work, Employment and Society, 25(3) pp. 506-521.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017011407961
21. Aspers, P., and Darr, A. (2011) "Trade Shows and the Creation of Market and Industry."
Sociological Review, 59(4), pp. 758-778.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02031.x
22. Darr, A. and Pinch. T. (2013) "Performing Sales: Material Scripts and the Social
Organization of Obligation." Organization Studies, 34(11), 1601-1621].
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612470228
23. Darr, A. (2015) “Convergence of service and Technical Skills: The Case of ERP
Implementation in Israel.” Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 23: 26-40.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19761597.2015.1011258
24. Darr A. (2017) “Gift Giving in Mass Consumption Markets.” Current Sociology, 65(1),
92-112.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392115622977
25. Darr, A. and Mears A. (2017) “Locating Local Knowledge in Global Networks: Scouting
in Fashion and Football.” Poetics, 62: 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2017.03.001
26. Darr, A. (2018) “Palestinian-Arabs and Jews at work: Workplace Encounters in a War-
Torn Country and the Grassroots Strategy of ‘Split Ascription.” Work, Employment and
Society, 35(5): 831-849.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017711141
27. Darr, A. (2019) “Automatons, sales-floor control and the constitution of authority.”
Human Relations 72(5): 889-909.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718783818
28. Aspers, Patrik and Darr, A. 2022. ‘The Social Infrastructure of Online Marketplaces:
Trade, Work and the Interplay of Decided and Emergent Orders. British Journal of Sociology
73(4): 822-838.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12965
29. Darr, Asaf. 2022. ‘Gift-giving as a Conversion Device in Online Marketplaces.’ First
Online, Social Media and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221114463
30. Darr, Asaf and Weber, Gal. 2025. Workplace Platforms and the Affordances of the
Alleloptic Vision. Forthcoming Work in the Global Economy.
https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2025D000000051
Ph.D Cornell university, School of ILR
My scholarship makes contributions in three research areas. The first is economic sociology
and the sociology of markets. I introduce the sociology of work and occupations as a viable
theoretical framework to study capitalist marketplaces and marketplace exchange. My unique
perspective produced scholarship on sales work, sales workers and a novel focus on sales
interactions as a venue for understanding the social infrastructure of capitalist marketplaces.
Another contribution of my research to the sociology of markets is the discovery of the
meaningful entwining of gift and commodity exchange in a variety of advanced capitalist
marketplaces, the typology of gifts in marketplaces which I developed, and my original focus
on the cooptation of the socio-cultural institution of gift-giving by advanced capitalist
marketplaces. I’m an expert on gift economy in contemporary marketplaces. My second
contribution is to the field of technology and work organization. My study of expert work in
technical sales and particularly my conceptualization of the technicization of sales work in
the information age, had a real impact on this field. My work played an important part in the
development of a distinct research stream called the sociology of work practice. My third
scholarly contribution is the discovery of a new arena for the study of inter-ethnic relations in
war torn countries – the workplace. Specifically, I engaged in a wide comparative study of
workplace relations between Palestinian and Jewish workers in the Israeli workplace.
