About Commerce : Understanding the Interface of Deal-Making and Relationship Building

Part 1: Relationships and Merchant Exchange -- Chapter 1- Introduction: Commerce defined -- Chapter 2- Trade, commercial relations, and the relationship -- Chapter 3 - Interaction, Exchange and Transaction -- Chapter 4 - Opportunism and normativity in the commercial relationship -- Part 2: Trade, merchandise and markets -- Chapter 5 - The centrality of the commodity in the commercial relationship and the commoditization process Chapter 6 - The process of generalised commoditization -- Chapter 7 – Exchange, trade and markets -- Chapter 8 - The market as an abstraction -- Chapter 9 – Commerce Formalized: Mathematical formulations and geometrical metaphors -- Part 3: commerce dynamics -- Chapter 10 - Fundamental relational mechanisms underlying trade and exchange -- Chapter 11 - Reciprocity and trust -- Chapter 12 - Collective commercial dynamics -- Chapter 13 - Virtual commerce relationships -- Part 4: Applications -- Chapter 14 - Commerce and police -- Chapter 15 - Mandates and commercial intermediation -- Chapter 16 - Labour market, instrumentalization and commerce in oneself and others -- Chapter 17 - The undue divorce between deals and relationships.