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Producing and Consuming Inequality

A Cultural Sociology of the Cultural Industries

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ID2985742
AuthorsDai O’brien (0000-0002-1991-756X, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Dave O’brien, Kim Allen (0000-0002-5583-8519, University of Leeds), Friedman (0000-0003-0629-1761, London School of Economics and Political Science), Sam Friedman, A Saha (0000-0001-7704-2493, Goldsmiths University of London)
Year2017
Volume11
Issue3
Pages271-282
Publication date2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1749975517712465
OpenAlexW2735918300
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited43

Even when shocks in a firm's environment are predictable, their consequences are not. Using the relocation of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium as a rich case of such a disruption, we investigate how combinations of strategic interpretation and spatial distance influence incumbent business owners' decisions to pursue temporal adaptation as a response. Temporal adaptation (TA) comprises timing rather than content changes by the firm seeking to adjust to the reconfigured environment. Survey data from 168 business owners show that strategic interpretation directly influences TA decisions. However, the effect of strategic interpretation on the TA decision is moderated by the spatial (geographic) distance of the incumbent firm from the locus of the disruption. Furthermore, results suggest that through strategic interpretation, spatial distance also indirectly affects the business owners' decisions to make temporal changes. Data collected 1.5 and 4 years later suggest that TA responses are related to performance and may be indicative of a particular type of TA, organizational entrainment (OE), which concerns the synchronization of organizational activity cycles with cycles in the environment

Business · Economic geography · Economics · Relocation · Sociology · Survey data collection · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Marketing

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