摘要：The present article represents an attempt at analyzing the social construction of productionactivities under a market economy. For that purpose, attempts are made to identify somesocial forces underlying and determining these activities. Such forces are exemplified in theexogenous, especially institutional, political and cultural, conditioning of capitalist produc-tion. The article also reviews relevant evidence to empirically evaluate the premise of thesocial construction of production. The article's purpose is to contribute toward the growingliterature in the social construction of economic, including managerial, behavior
