Exhibition Review: <i>Men in Skirts</i>

Malcolm-Davies, Jane

doi:10.2752/136270403778052195

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“…First, instead of focusing on fashion primarily from the consumption perspective (Miller et al , 1993), we formalized fashion through an organizational lens (Abrahamson, 2011). Our study presents fashion from a hospitality production perspective in terms of social, cultural, economic and technological significance (Malcolm, 2020) by showing the diffusion of management conceptualization and operationalization across different types of service enterprises (Czarniawska, 2011). It explains that fashion setters enhance innovation through translating their products/services as well as better managing new ideas and practices.…”

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Organizational fashion and trend setting in the hospitality industry

Fong,

Lin,

Wong

et al. 2023

IJCHM

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Purpose This study aims to use organizational fashion to underscore a novel phenomenon in which products, services and practices fade in and out of the tourism/hospitality setting within a specific time frame. Drawing from the fashion theoretical strands in organization research, this paper studies how fashion has been conceptualized, operationalized and then diffused among tourism/hospitality enterprises. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case design was used. A total of 37 semistructured in-depth interviews with executives of innovative tourism/hospitality companies (e.g. restaurants, hotels, theme parks and travel agencies) were conducted. This paper focuses on the organizational fashion phenomenon in which organizational trendsetters with creative, “hot” products/services have emerged prominently in the marketplace. Findings This inquiry illustrates a social phenomenon concerning the organizational fashion setting process by integrating existing production practices among different organizational suppliers in the hospitality sector. Different cases in the study show that fashion consists of a series of hybrid, paradoxical processes. These include conceptualization (conventionalization vs novelty, and personalization vs conformity), operationalization (bundling vs unbundling, and learning vs relearning) and diffusion (framing vs co-framing, and adaptation vs alteration). Research limitations/implications Throughout the three continuous processes, service design and identity development for consumption, as well as value creation and knowledge transformation for production, are carried out according to the decision of what is “hot” and what is “out” at a particular time. In essence, fashion helps to explain why hospitality institutions imitate specific innovations to take advantage of popular trends in the consumer market, as well as how such trends vanish eventually. Originality/value This research contributes the insight that organizations use fashion as a managerial initiative to translate their organizational goals and improvise nascent products and services. The fashion processes can be triggered by microlevel individual organizations and are spread through a series of social interactions to become macrolevel phenomena in a recurring manner.

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