Social identity and identification processes: enriching the theoretical tools to study Industrial Districts

Biggiero, Lucio; Sammarra, Alessia

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0393-4_10

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“…, 2018) ‘restaurants’ are illustrated with visuals depicting bars, nightclubs and abstract pictures with alcohol in focus. Verbal texts and visuals are in dissonance, contributing to an ambiguous representation of what a restaurant is and what is considered the central characteristics (Biggierro and Sammarra, 2003) of the restaurant identity.…”

Section: Visualmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Published online by Svenska Yle 16.3.2022 Media texts narrate optimistic prospects for the industry, but not without caution. The lack of workforce has been a central attribute (Biggierro and Sammarra, 2003) of the industry prior to the pandemic, which is strengthened as the pandemic persisted. As restrictions are alleviated and businesses are allowed to re-open, this shortage in labour becomes tangible.…”

Section: The Survivor Narrative: Nuancing Industry Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From servant to survivor: multimodal public service media narratives and restaurant industry identity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nyqvist

Lundgren-Henriksson

2022

JOCM

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore how an industry is represented in multimodal public media narratives and to explore how this representation subsequently affects the formation of public sense-giving space during a persisting crisis, such as a pandemic. The question asked is: how do the use of multimodality by public service media dynamically shape representations of industry identity during a persisting crisis?Design/methodology/approachThis study made use of a multimodal approach. The verbal and visual media text on the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic that were published in Finland by the public service media distributor Yle were studied. Data published between March 2020 and March 2022 were analysed. The data consisted of 236 verbal texts, including 263 visuals.FindingsThree narratives were identified– victim, servant and survivor – that construct power relations and depict the identity of the restaurant industry differently. It was argued that multimodal media narratives hold three meaning making functions: sentimentalizing, juxtaposing and nuancing industry characteristics. It was also argued that multimodal public service media narratives have wider implications in possibly shaping the future attractiveness of the industry and organizational members' understanding of their identity.Originality/valueThis research contributes to sensemaking literature in that it explores the role of power – explicitly or implicitly constructed through media narratives during crisis. Furthermore, this research contributes to sensemaking literature in that it shows how narratives take shape multimodally during a continuous crisis, and how this impacts the construction of industry identity.

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Section: Visualmentioning

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Section: The Survivor Narrative: Nuancing Industry Characteristicsmentioning

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From servant to survivor: multimodal public service media narratives and restaurant industry identity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nyqvist

Lundgren-Henriksson

2022

JOCM

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“…In this perspective, the shift of the unit of analysis from the ID as a whole to the district firm (Ferrucci and Varaldo, 1993;Brioschi et al, 2002;Biggiero and Samarra, 2003) apparently reflects not only the empirical evidence about the increasing importance of leader firms but also the internal inconsistency of the ID as a system and the emerging role of a new coordinating instance arising from one of the latter's sub-systems. Although the authors who follow this approach do not deny that the ID is important, its importance is reduced to that of a context, an environment where externalities enhance the marketrelated activities of firms.…”

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Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy

Ramazzotti¹

2009

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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The economic and social vitality of industrial districts (IDs) depends on the interaction between two major sub-systems: a community of people and a population of firms. A range of circumstances determined inconsistencies between the rationales of these two sub-systems. The emergence of leader firms that substitute the ID as coordinating instances and cost scrapping as a strategy that bypasses quality enhancement undermine the ID as a system. The paper contends that this outcome is not the only possible one. An alternative would require a regulatory-as opposed to merely permissive-action of public actors.

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“…Conversely, in management and organization science that possibility is growingly accepted and it is consolidating the field of study of organizational cognition, identity, trust, reputation, etc. Even more, and following the same idea, these concepts are becoming to be applied also at inter-organizational and territorial level (Biggiero and Sammarra, 2003;Sammarra and Biggiero, 2001). The third perspective is reductionism, according to which the physical and the mental states have its own ontology and proper concepts and theories, but the mental derive from the physical states.…”

Section: The Mind-body Problemmentioning

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Social identity and identification processes: enriching the theoretical tools to study Industrial Districts

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

From servant to survivor: multimodal public service media narratives and restaurant industry identity during the COVID-19 pandemic

From servant to survivor: multimodal public service media narratives and restaurant industry identity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Industrial districts, social cohesion and economic decline in Italy

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