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Through the lens of the fashion industry, Iva Petkova explores not only how institutionalized organizations react and adapt to the rise of start-up outsiders, but also how these outside “disruptors” seek to cultivate legitimacy and win influence. In so doing, she reflects upon a longstanding question in the sociology of organizations and neo-institutional theory: How do institutionalized organizations in creative industries resolve the inherent conflict between art and commerce, particularly in a changing institutional environment? Engineering Legitimacy  outlines the processes through which e-commerce and social commerce companies in fashion disturb and reconstruct the industry, crosscutting their technical field of expertise and looking to legitimize their innovative practice in the institutionally elaborated field of fashion. Through an analysis of the emerging culture of innovation collectively created by start-up outsider disruptors, this book contemplates how fashion-technology companies transform their moral narratives into acceptable commercial practice, legitimating a model of profound institutional change over the digital operations of fashion companies.
Autor: Petkova, Iva
ISBN: 9783030080792
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 188
Produktart: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Veröffentlicht: 02.02.2019
Untertitel: How Institutional Entrepreneurs in E-Commerce Bring Fashion Companies into the Digital Age
Schlagworte: Fashion Studies Institutionalism Neo-institutionalism Online fashion retail Organizational Culture Qualitative ethnography Technology start-ups entrepreneurship sociology of innovation sociology of organizations
Iva Petkova teaches Sociology at Ringling College of Art and Design, USA and is curriculum advisor for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Liberal Arts Program. Her research areas include cultural sociology, the sociology of organizations, and emergent technologies.

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