TY - JOUR
T1 - “Heaven or Las Vegas”
T2 - competing institutional logics and individual experience
AU - Cunha, Miguel Pina e
AU - Giustiniano, Luca
AU - Rego, Arménio
AU - Clegg, Stewart
N1 - Funding Information:
We prepared the paper for presentation at the OAP workshop 2016 (Lisbon, Portugal), at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) and at the 32nd EGOS colloquium (Naples, Italy). Part of this paper was prepared while Miguel Cunha was in residence at LUISS Guido Carli. He is indebted for the hospitality. We are extremely grateful to Martin Aston, journalist and author of some of the most valuable sources used for this work, for his kind availability in validating the interpretation of the case here reported and for significant injection of enthusiasm in analysing such a story. We are also indebted to Ivo Watts-Russell, exceptionally reached via the kind intermediation of Martin Aston, for having read our study. We can only say: thank you. Any inaccuracy is of course referable to the authors of the paper. This work was funded by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the project Ref. UID/ECO/00124/2013 and by POR Lisboa under the project LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 European Academy of Management
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Significant research has been dedicated to the study of the dual constitutive core at the field and organizational levels but less attention has been paid to the micro-dimensions of the collision of competing logics, namely in terms of how individuals experience and navigate through them and how that influences organizational ethos and strategy. We study how one individual, founder of the organization behind the independent music label 4AD, made sense and lived through the fundamental clash of two logics: ‘music as art’ and ‘music as business’. We analyse how the personal struggles of the founder allowed the construction and maintenance of a strong, solid and continued organizational identity for 4AD. We uncover four factors accounting for the protection of 4AD's sustained artistic integrity in face of a transforming industry.
AB - Significant research has been dedicated to the study of the dual constitutive core at the field and organizational levels but less attention has been paid to the micro-dimensions of the collision of competing logics, namely in terms of how individuals experience and navigate through them and how that influences organizational ethos and strategy. We study how one individual, founder of the organization behind the independent music label 4AD, made sense and lived through the fundamental clash of two logics: ‘music as art’ and ‘music as business’. We analyse how the personal struggles of the founder allowed the construction and maintenance of a strong, solid and continued organizational identity for 4AD. We uncover four factors accounting for the protection of 4AD's sustained artistic integrity in face of a transforming industry.
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U2 - 10.1111/emre.12156
DO - 10.1111/emre.12156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038868061
SN - 1740-4754
VL - 16
SP - 781
EP - 798
JO - European Management Review
JF - European Management Review
IS - 3
ER -