Engineering Legitimacy: How Institutional Entrepreneurs in E-Commerce Bring Fashion Companies into the Digital Age

Author:   Iva Petkova
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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9783030080792


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   02 February 2019
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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.

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Author:   Iva Petkova
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030080792


ISBN 10:   303008079
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   02 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Field Transformations and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Cultural Industries.- 2. New Institutional Entrepreneurs in the Fashion Industry.- 3. Fashion Companies: Organizational Responses to Managing Innovation in E-Commerce Practice.- 4. The Evolution of Digital Moda as an Institutional Entrepreneur.- 5. Digital Moda: Institutionalizing Legitimacy in the Fashion Industry.- 6. The Fruits of Creative Disruption: Influence Legitimacy and Tech Culture Transfer to Fashion Industry Gatekeepers.- 7. Ethnography at the Threshold: A Confessional on Theory and Method. 

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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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