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Institutional work and record pooling practices in the United States’ music industry

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ID8418643
AuthorsNeil Thompson (0000-0002-9619-5361, Department of Management and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Neil Aaron Thompson (0000-0001-8689-5287, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume60
Issue5
Pages677-698
Publication date2018-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076791.2017.1308485
OpenAlexW2604720206
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited45

Heeding calls to generate a creative synthesis between business history and organisation studies, this article analyses the emergence, institutionalisation and digitalisation of record pooling practices through the lens of institutional work. By developing an ‘analytically structured history’, this article contributes to the field of business history by demonstrating the value of practice and boundary work as organising categories. Practice and boundary work capture the continuous, recursive relations between structure and agency when constructing narrative explanations. It also contributes to neo-institutionalist history by demonstrating the embeddedness of institutional work – the everyday motivations and actions to revise practices and boundaries are shown to be intimately shaped by the conditions and affordances of historically-situated technologies

Affordance · Agency (philosophy · Boundary-work · Business history · Dialectic · Economics · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Institutionalisation · Management · Music industry · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Pooling · Professionalization · Public relations · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Artistic and Creative Research · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology

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Citation span2023 - 2025 (3)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
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