His interests include economic and organizational sociology, social movements, and social studies of technology. McInerney’s research focuses on the situated practices by which actors reconcile and combine competing ideas about worth across social domains, particularly in markets and social movements. He has published articles and book chapters about the politics of open source software, institutional entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and social movement mobilization. His book, From Social Movement to Moral Market: How the Circuit Riders Sparked an IT Revolution and Created a Technology Market, was published by Stanford University Press. He is currently studying how collaboration networks among craft brewers shape their industry segment.