Trying to Be Cosmopolitan

Thompson, Craig J.; Tambyah, Siok Kuan

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“…At the same time, the rooted operator feels "at home" in a specific culture and thus maintains close ties to the people and affairs of his or her cultural group. The rooted operator type thus depicts a new, emerging profile of contemporary cosmopolitans largely captured by the terms "cultural omnivores" (Peterson & Kern, 1996) and "cosmopolitan consumers" (Cannon & Yaprak, 2002;Hiebert, 2002;Thompson & Tambyah, 1999). They consume a wide variety of cultural forms and routinely use "culture talk"-the deployment of cultural knowledge associated with aesthetic goods in conversations-as a resource to connect across cultural and social groups (Lizardo, 2016).…”

Section: Rooted Operatormentioning

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Transcultural Brokerage: The Role of Cosmopolitans in Bridging Structural and Cultural Holes

Levy¹,

Lee

Jonsen

et al. 2018

Journal of Management

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TRANSCULTURAL BROKERAGE: THE ROLE OF COSMOPOLITANS IN BRIDGING STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL HOLES ABSTRACTThe growth and proliferation of global systems and transnational cultures have generated larger and more diverse types of cosmopolitans, all of whom span conventional social boundaries. Understanding this diversity is increasingly important because cosmopolitans often bridge across a wide range of transnational and global networks within and across global organizations. Drawing on multiple disciplines, we conceptualize cosmopolitanism as an embodied disposition characterized by high levels of cultural transcendence and openness that are manifested in and enacted along varied trajectories of cultural embeddedness in one's own culture and cultural engagement with the cultural Other. We then propose an analytical framework for the influence of cosmopolitan disposition on transcultural brokerage processes, specifically on bridging structural and cultural holes. Finally, we present a typology of cosmopolitan brokers and their corresponding practices and activities as they engage in transcultural brokerage. By recognizing the diversity and complexity of cosmopolitans and their respective dispositions, we significantly expand the pool of "global talent" beyond the traditional focus on expatriates, and we challenge the conventional wisdom on who counts as talent in an interconnected world.

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Section: Rooted Operatormentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcultural Brokerage: The Role of Cosmopolitans in Bridging Structural and Cultural Holes

Levy¹,

Lee

Jonsen

et al. 2018

Journal of Management

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“…A recognition of the socially constructed nature of provenance is echoed in recent discussions of the cultural meaning and production of authenticity (Grazian 2003;Kirschenblatt-Gimblett 1998;Peñaloza 2000;Postrel 2003;Zukin 2009). Research in this vein has highlighted, on the one hand, the role of service workers and cultural producers in strategically embedding particular goods, services and practices within a framework of 'authenticity' in order to add economic value (Arnould and Price 1993;Beverland and Luxton 2005;Brown, Kozinets and Sherry 2003;Fine 2003;Johnston and Baumann 2007;Lewis and Bridger 2001;Peterson 2005Peterson , 1997; and, on the other, consumers' varied understandings of, desires for, and willingness to pay a premium for, 'authentic' products and services (Arvidsson 2005;Beverland 2006;Beverland, Lindgreen and Vink 2008;Holt 1998;Leigh, Peters and Shelton 2006;MacCannell 1989;Sassatelli and Scott 2001;Thompson and Tambyah 1999). Despite such research making clear that authenticity and provenance claims are far from transparent and should be treated as the outcomes of complex processes of cultural production and consumption, there remains a lack of grounded, empirical research on how such claims are strategically, materially produced by marketers and other cultural producers.…”

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Provenance as a filtering and framing device in the qualification of wine

Maguire

2012

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…On the one hand, many sociologists and other analysts suggest that individuals tend to view such claims unfavorably (Elster 1981;Holt 2002;Kozinets 2002;Thompson and Tambyah 1999). They reason that negative perceptions arise because individuals are usually aware that these identity claims are inherently self-promotional or manipulative.…”

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The Perils of Proclaiming an Authentic Organizational Identity

Kovács¹,

Carroll²,

Lehman³

2017

SocScience

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An emerging body of research consistently demonstrates that individuals in developed consumer markets value authenticity. But how individuals respond to organizations that tout their identities as authentic is not so well understood. We argue that organizational attempts at explicitly proclaiming their own identity as authentic will generally be regarded by individuals with skepticism and devaluation. Across two studies with different research designs, we find consistent empirical evidence that individuals devalue organizations making identity self-claims of authenticity. The first study analyzed authenticity claims made in the texts of menus from 1,393 restaurants in Los Angeles and their corresponding 450,492 online consumer reviews recorded from 2009 to 2016. The second study used a controlled, minimalistic experimental setting with fictitious restaurant menus that examined reactions to generic authenticity self-claims. The findings illuminate how individuals respond to organizational identity claims about authenticity and raise interesting questions about other types of identity claims.

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Trying to Be Cosmopolitan

Cited by 423 publications

References 62 publications

Transcultural Brokerage: The Role of Cosmopolitans in Bridging Structural and Cultural Holes

Transcultural Brokerage: The Role of Cosmopolitans in Bridging Structural and Cultural Holes

Provenance as a filtering and framing device in the qualification of wine

The Perils of Proclaiming an Authentic Organizational Identity

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