A General Theory of Organizational Stigma

Devers, Cynthia E.; Dewett, Todd; Mishina, Yuri; Belsito, Carrie A.

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“…In sociology, social status describes a social rank or a position in a hierarchical order and thus refers to the relative standing of an individual or organisation in the society (Devers et al 2009). In accordance with this concept, a number of studies analyse the social status of individuals with a specific occupation.…”

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Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland

Bolli¹,

Rageth²

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in SwitzerlandThis paper proposes a new approach to measuring changes in the social status of education programmes, a type of social status that the literature has greatly neglected so far. We focus on the dual Vocational Education and Training (dual VET) system in Switzerland, which has recently received substantial attention across Europe. We argue that, holding everything else constant, a change in the relative ability of students in an education programme, in relation to the cohort, reflects a change in the social status of that programme. Using PISA scores as a proxy for cognitive ability, we apply this approach to test whether growing knowledge of the education system increases the social status of dual VET in Switzerland. Our results, which focus on immigrant students, confirm that the social status of dual VET increases with these students length of stay in Switzerland, thus reflecting their learning process about the Swiss education system.

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“…However, a successful functioning of a dual VET system 2 depends on the social status of this education programme (Lasonen and Manning 2001;Cedefop 2014), whereat social status refers to the relative position or rank of that programme compared to other education programmes on the same educational level (Devers et al 2009). …”

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Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland

Bolli¹,

Rageth²

2016

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“…Le concept d'illégitimité organisationnelle a fait l'objet de moins de travaux et se trouve de fait moins bien défini (Devers, et al 2009). Par ailleurs, le lien théorique avec la légitimité organisationnelle reste à établir (Hudson, 2008).…”

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“…Les organisations légitimes sont celles dont les valeurs et les comportements sont les plus en phase avec les conventions sociales, ce qui leur permet d'acquérir des ressources plus facilement (Deephouse et Suchman, 1995). Moins connue est la notion d' « illégitimité » organisationnelle, lorsque les organisations violent les normes sociales (Hudson, 2008 ;Devers et al 2009). Un des défis théoriques que présente cette littérature est le fait que certaines organisations peuvent simultanément être légitimes et illégitimes (Hudson, 2008), comme le suggère la survivance d'organisations hautement illégitimes, par exemple dans les industries comme le tabac ou le jeu (Galvin, et al 2004).…”

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Qu’il est bon d’être méchant !

Roulet

2015

Rev. Fr. Gest.

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Résumé:Cet article étudie le lien entre légitimité et illégitimité organisationnelles. Nous combinons analyse de contenu media et approches quantitatives pour explorer cette relation dans le contexte des banques d'investissement aux Etats-Unis. Parce que l'illégitimité peut paradoxalement signaler l'adhérence à des normes en vigueur dans un champ organisationnel, les banques les plus attaquées par la presse sont aussi considérées comme les plus prestigieuses par leurs pairs. Mots-clés :Légitimité et illégitimité organisationnelles, banques d'investissement, analyse de contenu media. Abstract:This study explores the relationship between organizational legitimacy and illegitimacy. It combines media content analysis and quantitative approaches to empirically investigate this link in the specific context of investment banks in the United States. Illegitimacy can paradoxically signal conformity to field level norms. Thus, the more banks are attacked by the print media, the more prestigious they are seen by their peers.

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“…rganizational stigma is a nascent and bourgeoning field of research in organization and work-life studies (Carberry and King 2012;Devers et al 2009;Hudson 2008;Mishina and Devers 2012;Vergne 2012). Asserting the construct, organizational stigma has been set against and separated from other related concepts in organization theory, such as organizational status (Devers et al 2009), organizational misconduct (Pozner 2008), and organizational reputation (Devers et al 2009;Mishina and Devers 2012).…”

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Normal Deviants and Erving Goffman: Extending the Literature on Organizational Stigma

Jensen

Sandström

2015

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A General Theory of Organizational Stigma

Abstract: We thank Senior Editor Sim Sitkin and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions. We also gratefully acknowledge helpful suggestions from Adrienne Colella,

Cited by 301 publications

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Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland

Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland

Qu’il est bon d’être méchant !

Normal Deviants and Erving Goffman: Extending the Literature on Organizational Stigma

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