Constructing and Sustaining Counter-Institutional Identities

Chreim, Samia; Langley, Ann; Reay, Trish; Comeau-Vallée, Mariline; Huq, Jo-Louise

doi:10.5465/amj.2017.0528

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“…Yet, key characteristics of digital technologies (e.g., loose coupling, reprogrammability, and distributedness; Yoo et al 2010, Kallinikos et al 2013, Leonardi and Vaast 2017 provide professionals with many opportunities to make direct local changes to technologies that reconfigure work practices of less powerful actors. In addition, many contemporary organizations lack an overarching authority who can enforce cooperation among federated professionals (Empson and Langley 2015, Smets et al 2017, Huising and Silbey 2018, Chreim et al 2020, and lack formal protections for less powerful actors (Kochan et al 2019).…”

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“…Because of key characteristics of digital technology, individuals can, much more frequently than they could in the past, make direct local changes to technologies that reconfigure work practices of less powerful actors (Leonardi 2011, Bailey and Barley 2020. These changes, in combination with declining union membership and bargaining power (Kochan et al 2019), and the lack of an overarching authority who can enforce cooperation among federated professionals in many modern organizations (Empson and Langley 2015, Smets et al 2017, Huising and Silbey 2018, Chreim et al 2020, may lead to an increase in digital technology-related participation problems, threshold problems, and free rider problems during digital technology introduction and integration. This, in turn, may accelerate loss Kellogg: Experimentalist Governance of Digital Technology of autonomy and work intensification for less powerful actors our contemporary economy.…”

Section: Mutually Beneficial Role Reconfiguration During Digital Techmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To what extent is this generalizable to other instances of digital technology introduction and integration? Inside professional services organizations, such as the case studied here, organization managers are newly powerful third-party actors because of changing institutional conditions that increase the need for their expertise-increasing costs, unmet demand for some professional services, a greater emphasis on consumer preferences, and the encoding of expert knowledge in digital technology (Smets et al 2017, Chreim et al 2020. Other cases of newly powerful third-party actors inside the boundaries of organizations include professionals with expertise to solve pressing problems (DiBenigno 2020) such as digital interactivity professionals (Truelove 2019) and algorithmic curators, brokers, and articulators who help employers use algorithms to facilitate improved decision making, coordination, and organizational learning (Kellogg et al 2020a).…”

Section: New Triangles Of Power In Our Contemporary Economy Afford Thmentioning

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Local Adaptation Without Work Intensification: Experimentalist Governance of Digital Technology for Mutually Beneficial Role Reconfiguration in Organizations

Kellogg¹

2022

Organization Science

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This 1.5-year ethnographic study of a U.S. medical center shows that avoiding loss of autonomy and work intensification for less powerful actors during digital technology introduction and integration presents a multisited collective action challenge. I found that technology-related participation problems, threshold problems, and free rider problems may arise during digital technology introduction and integration that enable loss of autonomy and work intensification for less powerful actors. However, the emergence of new triangles of power allows for novel coalitions between less powerful actors and newly powerful third-party actors that can help mitigate this problem. I extend the political science perspective of experimentalist governance to examine how a digital technology-focused, iterative collective action process of local experimentation followed by central revision can facilitate mutually beneficial role reconfiguration during digital technology introduction and integration. In experimentalist governance of digital technology, local units are given discretion to adapt digital technologies to their specific contexts. A central unit composed of diverse actors then reviews progress across local units integrating similar digital technology to negotiate a new shared understanding of mutually beneficial technology-related tasks for each group of actors. The central unit modifies both local routines and the technology itself in response to problems and possibilities revealed by the central revision process, and the cycle repeats. Here, accomplishing mutually beneficial role reconfiguration occurs through an experimentalist, collective action process rather than through a labor-management bargaining process or a professional-led tuning process.

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2022

Organization Science

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“…Some researchers though have moved away from Kuhn's (2008) original intent and present concrete texts such as written standards (Chreim, Langley, Reay, Comeau-Vallée, & Huq, 2020), letters (Logemann, Piekkari, & Cornelissen, 2019), strategy documents (Vásquez, Bencherki, Cooren, & Sergi, 2018) and maps (Jordan, Jørgensen, theorizing about authoritative texts' visible organizing power, they neglect the complex and concealed normative forces that propel such power. Other empirical works also provide welcome and needed links between authoritative texts and power, but they discount the potential for such texts to produce power by privileging how they 'represent' (Spee & Jarzabkowski, 2011, p. 1237, 'describe' (Burlat & Mills, 2018, p. 765), or become 'associated with' (Holm & Fairhurst, 2018, p. 715) other locations of power.…”

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From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity

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Organization Studies

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The face is a significant locus of power upon which judgements concerning a person’s status, worth and attractiveness are made. This study contributes to knowledge of facial norms’ shifting performative power in daily organizing, theorizing facial beauty as a communicatively constituted authoritative text. We achieve this through blending Butlerian and communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) theorizing. This allows us to enrich understandings of power and performativity’s necessarily entangled and co-constitutive unfolding, as we trace how a normative understanding of facial beauty becomes more and/or less performatively powerful through embodied-textual processes. Our theorizing is generated from an ethnography of a UK cosmetics firm and demonstrates how facial beauty functions as a (figurative) authoritative text that corporealizes, subjectivizes, and is resisted by makeup artists within a confluence of (concrete) text and conversation. We show how through communicative, citational and embodied processes of corporealization, regulation and subjection, everyday performances like makeup applications become performatively powerful on the ground level of interaction. Further, returning authoritative texts to their original figurative formulation uncovers something of how their transformative power shapes organizing’s ongoing accomplishment.

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“…This identification process relies on both the artisan entrepreneur's personal agency (choices made and volition exercised in sustained craft work and commercial efforts) and dynamic sociocultural context that gives meaning to and generates demand for the handicrafts. Solomon and Mathias (2020) explored connections between artisan entrepreneurs' identities and their small firms' growth prospects, drawing in part on recent research in counter-institutional identities (Chreim, Langley, Reay, Comeau-Vallée, & Huq, 2020). Chreim et al explained that counter-institutional organizational forms (such as many artisanal ventures) arise when the members of the emerging organizations view the dominant institution as somehow unacceptable or inappropriate.…”

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Resolving the Artisan Entrepreneur’s Oppositional Identity With Venturing in a Declining City Context

2021

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This article presents conceptual research questions and propositions on the relationship between the artisan entrepreneur's oppositional identity and entrepreneurially venturing in the context of declining cities and urbanized regions. In general, I propose that some features of declining cities typically deemed harmful to business (e.g., deindustrialization, population loss, stifled innovation) may be less problematic for artisan ventures operated with a strong devotion to craft, localness and sense of place, and independence and less emphasis on financial performance than is typical of more mainstream entrepreneurship. The conceptual development herein relies on identity theory (including occupational identity and counter-institutional identity concepts), embeddedness theory, and urban economics concepts. This effort addresses calls for more research on both artisan entrepreneurship and the declining city as a context of entrepreneurship.

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Constructing and Sustaining Counter-Institutional Identities

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References 55 publications

Local Adaptation Without Work Intensification: Experimentalist Governance of Digital Technology for Mutually Beneficial Role Reconfiguration in Organizations

Local Adaptation Without Work Intensification: Experimentalist Governance of Digital Technology for Mutually Beneficial Role Reconfiguration in Organizations

From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity

Resolving the Artisan Entrepreneur’s Oppositional Identity With Venturing in a Declining City Context

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