Châteaux contre garages : Mouvements sociaux et identités collectives à Saint-Émilion

International audienceDans cet article, nous examinons l’émergence des identités collectives comme produit d’un projet politique coordonné par des activistes organisés qui profitent d’opportunités politiques pour se mobiliser et remettre en cause un ordre concurrentiel établi. L’analyse empirique porte sur le mouvement social identitaire des vins de garage, qui, dans les années 1990 et dans le vignoble bordelais de Saint-Émilion, remet en cause la domination des grands vins de châteaux comme modèle économique et culturel hégémonique. Nous identifions quatre processus à l’oeuvre dans l’émergence de l’identité de « garagiste » : la théorisation, la labellisation, la résonance et la polarisation. Dans le champ de la théorie des organisations, ce cas contribue à la littérature sur les mouvements sociaux et les groupes stratégiques identitaires.<br/

Welcome to the Hotel California : Strangers and Hospitable Organizations

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Hidden in plain sight : untapped riches of meso-level entrepreneurship mechanisms

Entrepreneurial action is embedded within a variety of complex social structures, not all of which can be as easily defined or measured as macro-institutional or micro-individual characteristics, but collectively hold rich insights into the actual causal mechanisms influencing action. To address this problem, we call upon researchers to broaden their levels of analysis and direct their focus to mesolevel structures. Although meso-level social structures are widely studied independently, these intermediate levels are seldom integrated into existing multi-level models. We argue that meso-level structures offer untapped riches for enhancing multi-level entrepreneurial mechanisms and discuss how social groups, associations, and other collectives operating at a meso-level can play a more distinct integrative role in between the two ends of the institutional spectrum. To provide practical guidance for pursuing such investigations, we adapt Coleman’s Bathtub model to form a robust framework that integrates micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. Our framework helps alleviate the shortcomings produced by an overdependence on either solely macro- or micro-level entrepreneurial mechanisms and brings the hidden intermediate level into plain sight

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Complex field-positions and non-imitation: Pioneers, strangers, and insulars in Australian fine-wine

International audienceThis paper studies how complex field-positions, characterized by combinations of structural and cultural mechanisms, are associated with the non-imitation of dominant field-level practices. Theoretically, the notion of complex field-position complements prior institutional research on field-positions and non-imitation, which focuses primarily on structural mechanisms. Our empirical study looks at 62 Australian fine-wines, using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to identify combinations of structural and cultural mechanisms associated with the non-imitation of Penfolds Grange, a role model in the Australian fine-wine field. We find three distinct complex field-positions—pioneers, strangers, and insulars— which occurred at different moments in the history of this field. We build on these findings to discuss the importance of complex field-positions as sources of positional opportunities, and their role in the development and persistence of diversity in organizational fields

How do creative genres emerge? The case of the Australian wine industry

International audienceThe present paper examines how a new, creative genre emerges out of a commodity-based industry. Building on the genre-emergence literature, the paper analyzes the Australian wine industry since the 1950s. Based on content analysis of a wide variety of sources, the study identifies four mechanisms that account for creative-genre emergence: shifting and layering of metrics, analogies with established creative industries and practices, resonance with society-level logics, and personification. The results contribute to the genre-emergence and creative-industries literatures

Biomateriality and organizing: Towards an organizational perspective on food

In this introduction to the special issue, we first provide an illustrative overview of how food has been approached in organization studies. We focus on the organizing of food, that is the organizational efforts that leverage, shape and transform food. Against this backdrop, we distinguish the agency of organizations and the agency of food and explore their intersection. We argue that the ‘biomateriality’ of food, i.e. its biomaterial qualities, plays a distinctive role in shaping and affecting organizing and organizations. To do so, we present a conceptual framework for analysing food organizing, which highlights the biomateriality of food and its agentic effects on organizational efforts. Thus, we provide researchers with an analytical toolkit to disentangle the different agents (people, organizations, food itself) and the associated processes and mechanisms that play a role in food organizing. We use this analytical toolkit to introduce the different articles in the special issue and put forward some lines of future research.peerReviewe