This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external power struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma divers...
Organization research on stigma has mostly focused on the stigmatized, limiting the scope for explor...
How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to ...
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings o...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
doi: 10.1177/0170840620905167This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging cate...
Pioneers of organic farming often faced social challenges as their innovative ideas on agriculture n...
Pioneers of organic farming often faced social challenges as their innovative ideas on agriculture n...
Stigmas, or discredited personal attributes, emanate from social perceptions of physical characteris...
This study examines how managers and entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries use historical narrativ...
This paper discusses several strategies for preventing technological stigma from causing unwarranted...
The paper highlights two problematic tendencies in the burgeoning literature on organizational stigm...
Many legalized markets bear categorical stigma—a vilifying label attached to an industry and its par...
This paper investigated the origin and use of the term “ghetto” by clients and employees in four com...
Organization research on stigma has mostly focused on the stigmatized, limiting the scope for explor...
How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to ...
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings o...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatizati...
doi: 10.1177/0170840620905167This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging cate...
Pioneers of organic farming often faced social challenges as their innovative ideas on agriculture n...
Pioneers of organic farming often faced social challenges as their innovative ideas on agriculture n...
Stigmas, or discredited personal attributes, emanate from social perceptions of physical characteris...
This study examines how managers and entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries use historical narrativ...
This paper discusses several strategies for preventing technological stigma from causing unwarranted...
The paper highlights two problematic tendencies in the burgeoning literature on organizational stigm...
Many legalized markets bear categorical stigma—a vilifying label attached to an industry and its par...
This paper investigated the origin and use of the term “ghetto” by clients and employees in four com...
Organization research on stigma has mostly focused on the stigmatized, limiting the scope for explor...
How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to ...
This special edition on ‘Understanding and Challenging Stigma’ seeks to further our understandings o...