What Lies Beneath

Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

Bibliographic Data

ID10757387
AuthorsFabiola Alvarez Lorenzo (Institut d'Economie Scientifique Et de Gestion), Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell (Cardiff Business School, UK, corresponding author), Barbara Townley (St Andrews School of Management, UK)
Year2023
Volume57
Issue3
Pages552-568
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00380385221103955
OpenAlexW4291162388
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited51

This article takes recourse to a particular branch of French Pragmatic Sociology, namely, Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘orders of worth’ paradigm, as a lens through which to both explore the misalignment between espoused values and retrospective discourses and illustrate the underlying motivations behind decision making in an organisation within the creative industries sector. By virtue of its contributions at the organisational, social and sectorial levels, our study contributes to extant debates pertaining to individual agency versus structural constraints as well as demonstrating the heterogeneity of modes of formal compliance to wider institutionalised legitimacy. In so doing, it builds upon recent work that seeks to broaden the notion of value in the creative industries, while, simultaneously, calling for greater heterogeneity in policy making in the sector through an ongoing process of ‘creative conflict’

Agency (philosophy · Economics · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Legitimacy · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Virtue · Work (physics · Education, sociology, and vocational training · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies

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