פרסומים
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
השכלה
Ph.D Cornell university, School of ILR
רקע אקדמי
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.