Clothes Make the Person? The Tailoring of Legitimating Accounts and the Social Construction of Identity

By W. Creed, Maureen A. Scully, John R. Austin. Organ. Sci., 2002

619 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Eva Boxenbaum
2. B. Leca
3. Julie Battilana
4. J. Moon
5. A. Cunliffe
6. Sarah Kaplan
7. P. Naccache
8. Philippe Monin

In Public Administration

1. S. Maguire
2. Sarah Kaplan
3. P. Naccache
4. J. Moon
5. Katherine C. Kellogg
6. Cynthia Hardy
7. Angèle Christin
8. Melissa A. Valentine

In Strategy and Management

1. J. Moon
2. B. Leca
3. Eva Boxenbaum
4. Dirk Matten
5. P. Naccache
6. Philippe Monin
7. Julie Battilana
8. S. Maguire

Citations in the corpus

• Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy (2011, background): “…or without reading Carnegie, that they should apply business methods within philanthropy, pursue capital accumulative strategies, lead issue-based coalitions, and seek public support for world-making projects (Clegg et al., 2006; Creed et al., 2002; Maclean et al., 2010; Zald & Lounsbury, 2010).”
• Do LGBT-supportive Corporate Policies Enhance Firm Performance? (2017, neutral): “27 LGBT-supportive policies are controversial, stigmatized, and may have negative consequences for firms that adopt them (Creed et al., 2002; Kaplan, 2006; Chuang et al., 2011).”
• An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “They are implicitly depicted as passive pawns (Tempel and Walgenbach, 2007) or cultural dopes (Giddens, 1984; Creed et al., 2002) who receive and then respond to pressures for particular CSR activities coming from outside the organization.”
• Orientations to Social Constructionism: Relationally Responsive Social Constructionism and its Implications for Knowledge and Learning (2008, background): “A second approach from this perspective focuses on the process of construction—how particular discursive and/or conversational practices produce meaning (Creed et al., 2002; Heracleous, 2006; Oswick and Richards, 2004).”
• Agency and Institutions: A Review on Institutional Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “…institutional entrepreneur de-legitimating existing institutional arrangements and those supported by opponents (e.g., Suddaby and Greenwood, 2005; Creed et al., 2002) and legitimating the project at hand to stakeholders and other potential allies (e.g., Déjean et al., 2004; Demil and Bensédrine,…”
• A Critical Realist Approach To Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, positive): “Critical realism can also provide an ontological basis for the institutional works using framing analysis (e.g. Lounsbury et al., 2003; Creed et al., 2002).”
• Framing Contests: Strategy Making Under Uncertainty (2008, background): “collective action may be most evident in periods of transformation (Fligstein 1996) when actors construct legitimating accounts to shape the direction of change (Creed et al. 2002b).”