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• Michael Lounsbury

  Professor of Strategic Management & Organization

  Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  University of Alberta School of Business

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• Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

• Shaz Ansari, Cambridge University, UK

• Silvia Dorado Banacloche, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

• Marya Besharov, Oxford University, UK

• Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Ed Carberry, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

• Lisa Cohen, McGill University, Canada

• Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, USA

• Erica Coslor, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan, USA

• Rich Dejordy, California State University, USA

• Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, France

• Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, Spain

• Peer Fiss, University of Southern California, USA

• Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College, USA

• Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, Finland

• Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

• Stine Grodal, Northeastern University, USA

• Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Ruthanne Huising, emlyon business school, France

• Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Canada

• Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

• Matthew S. Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, UK

• Xiaowei Rose Luo, Insead, France

• Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany

• Christopher Marquis, Cornell University, USA

• Renate Meyer, Vienna University, Austria

• William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, UK

• Prateek Raj, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

• Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

• Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Paul Spee, University of Queensland, Australia

• Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, UK

• Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

• Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, UK

• Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, UK

• Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada

• Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, Switzerland

• Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

• April Wright, University of Queensland, Australia

• Meng Zhao, Nanyang Business School & Renmin University, China

• Enying Zheng, Peking University, China

• Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 77

THE GENERATION, RECOGNITION AND LEGITIMATION OF NOVELTY

EDITED BY

GINO CATTANI

New York University, USA

DIRK DEICHMANN

Erasmus University, Netherlands

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SIMONE FERRIANI

University of Bologna, Italy

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Contributors

Noah Askin is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He is interested in social and cultural networks, the antecedents and consequences of creativity and innovation, the production and consumption of culture, and the dynamics of network- and rankings-based status for organizations and individuals. His research centers primarily on the music industry and the market for higher education.

Davide Bavato is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a Lecturer in Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. His academic research focuses on how individuals and organizations respond to novel ideas, opportunities, and discoveries across different empirical contexts, including crowdsourcing tournaments and startup accelerators. He holds a PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, at Erasmus University.

Michael B. Beverland is Professor of Brand Management and Head of Department, Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex Business School. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School. His main research lie in the area of marketplace authenticity and brand management. His work has been published in an array of outlets including Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Management Studies. For the record, he is not a fan of Phil Collins, although does have a soft spot for Sussudio.

Matthew S. Bothner is a Professor of Strategy and Deutsche Telekom Chair at ESMT Berlin. He has studied status from a network-analytic perspective and is currently interested in understanding changes in the meaning of words and concepts in semantic networks. He received his PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Sociology.

Pinar Cankurtaran is Assistant Professor of Brand Strategy at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. She holds a Doctoral degree from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her current research focuses on brand authenticity, brand discourses, craft innovation, and brand-driven change.

Ignasi Capdevila is a Professor and Researcher at the Chair NewPIC at Paris School of Business. His research interests include localized knowledge creation and transfer, knowledge communities, creativity, and innovation management in organizations and cities. He is currently working on the innovation dynamics in collaborative spaces and on the knowledge and innovation processes taking place in cities.

Glenn R. Carroll’s is currently the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and (by courtesy) Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on organizations and strategic management. His recent projects study socially constructed authenticity – how consumers and others value authenticity, how consumers search for authenticity in products and services, and how consumers interpret organizational behavior and structure as reflecting authenticity. His recent book is Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage (with Jesper S⊘rensen), 2021.

Gino Cattani is Professor of Strategy and Organization Theory at the Stern School of Business, Department of Management and Organizations, New York University. He holds a PhD in Strategy and Organization from the Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania. His research spans different areas of investigation, with a particular focus on how firms sustain their competitive advantage in regimes of technological change and the role of preadapted capabilities. He also studies audience-mediated legitimation processes that are involved in the recognition and acceptance of novelty.

Leonardo Corbo is Senior Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Bologna. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Management at Católica Porto Business School and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LUISS University. He has hold visiting positions at the Kellogg School of Management and the University of British Columbia. His research has been published in the Journal of Business Research, Organization Studies, and Management Decision, among others.

Raffaele Corrado is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Bologna. He was Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, USA, in 1996–1997. He holds a PhD in Management at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1999. His research focuses on the evolution of (intra and inter) organizational networks. He published in journals like Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Journal of Management and Governance.

Dirk Deichmann is an Associate Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. In his research, he focuses on the determinants and consequences of creative and innovative behavior, with particular emphasis on the question of how sustained and successful idea generation, development, and implementation can be achieved.

Denise Falchetti is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna. She visited NYU for three years and did a Postdoc at Boston University. Her research focuses on the evaluation processes of entrepreneurial endeavors (i.e., novel ideas, startups, or more established firms). She adopts experiments, field data, and text analysis to contribute to the literature on entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity.

Simone Ferriani is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Bologna and at City, University of London. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University and a lifetime member of Clare-Hall College in Cambridge (UK). His interests include entrepreneurship, creativity, processes of social evaluation, and social networks.

Jetta Frost is a Full Professor of Organization Management and Theory at Universität Hamburg and also holds the Office of the University’s Vice President for knowledge exchange. She received her doctorate and habilitation from the University of Zurich. Her current research interests are organizational and knowledge governance in higher education institutions, innovative organization design, and governing new work.

Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in France. He received his PhD from Columbia University. His research explores the dynamics of creative industries, and he has published in top academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and the Strategic Management Journal.

Konstantin Hondros is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He studies the creative economy, copyright, and similarities between cultural artifacts. Besides, he is interested in digital platforms, their organization and influence on creativity, particularly in relation to intellectual property regulation.

Wayne R. Johnson received his Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, his Master’s degree from Georgetown University, and is currently a PhD candidate at Cornell University. He studies the evaluation and adoption of creative content in organizations as well as judgment and decision-making. Prior to academia, he was an army officer.

Balázs Kovács is an Associate Professor in Management at Yale University. He studies various topics in organization theory and strategy, including social networks, entrepreneurship, learning, diffusion, organizational identity, and status. He has investigated these issues in a variety of settings, including restaurants, movies, book publishing, innovation and patenting, and banks. His current work investigates the effects of category spanning and innovation in technological domains.

Wonjae Lee is an Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Culture Technology in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the social mechanisms behind human action, which includes analyses of formula 1 racing, Fluxus artists, EDM DJs, Seoul’s public transportations, and so on.

Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock is Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Hamburg. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor at VU University Amsterdam. She holds a PhD from Technische Universität Braunschweig. She studies team processes, workplace meetings, leader–follower dynamics, and methodological advances for understanding emergent behavioral patterns in workplace interactions. Her work is supported by grants and industry funding and has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and The Leadership Quarterly, among others. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Small Group Research.

Ming D. Leung is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He studies how categories and categorical systems affect outcomes in markets, such as for crowdfunding and freelance labor. His current work focuses on how understanding in what ways particularly distinctive or novel combinations of categories can provide both penalties and benefits to market participants.

Giacomo Negro is a Professor of Organization and Management and Sociology (by courtesy) at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He studies the role of market categories and identities.

Vincenza Odorici is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna and Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University in 1995. She holds her PhD in Management at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1997. Her research focuses on market intermediaries, rivalry, and international new ventures.

M. Pilar Opazo is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. She is the author of Appetite for Innovation (Columbia University Press) and the co-author of two Spanish-language volumes, Communications in Organizations and Negotiation: Competing or Collaborating. Her work has been published in Organization Studies, Sociological Theory, and Poetics. Prior to Boston College, she was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Friederike Redlbacher is a Doctoral student at the Chair of Organization and Management at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on agile meetings and meeting landscapes in organizations, which she explores through case studies using mixed methods. Her further research interests lie in interaction dynamics and collaborative innovation processes.

Brian P. Reschke is an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business. His research focuses on status, networks, and innovation. He currently studies the cognitive and social processes by which markets evaluate novel products, organizations, and ideas. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel B. Sands is an Assistant Professor at the UCL School of Management, University College London, UK. He received his PhD from the Leonard N. Stern School of Busines, New York University. His research addresses topics such as evaluation, valuation, and price. He focuses on the strategic activities of third parties and their role in the creation and capture of value in markets.

Barbara Slavich is Professor of Organization in the Paris campus at IESEG School of Management, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9221 - LEM - Lille Economie Management, F-59000 Lille, France. She holds a double PhD degree in Management from ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy). She was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (New York) and at Duke University (North Carolina). Her research focuses on organizing and leading for creativity and innovation, with emphasis on creative industries, as well as on the emergence and dynamics of new categories and styles.

André Spicer is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Head of the Faculty of Management at Bayes Business School. He is author of Business Bullshit, The Stupidity Paradox, and Desperately Seeking Self Improvement.

Lukas Vogelgsang is a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. His research topics comprise coordination and governance of organizational creativity, pharmaceutical innovation processes, and management of paradoxes and dualities during creative collaboration.

Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations, that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations—from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multi-national conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by Research in the Sociology of Organizations include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations—such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics and many other topics.

Each volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multinational corporations, entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find Research in the Sociology of Organizations to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta