Jerome M. Hendricks is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His research interests include the construction and negotiation of value, organizations, organizing, and field change. His current research explores the actions of intermediary firms in periods of rapid technological change. Utilizing the digital shift in the music retail industry, he examines the survival of specialist firms in a market trending toward digital products and services. Throughout his career, he has focused on the role of meaning-making processes among organizations and target audiences as central to the production of material outcomes in technologically advanced forms of capitalism.