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Politics of meaning in categorizing innovation : how chefs advanced molecular gastronomy by resisting the label
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Slavich, B., Opazo, P., Svejenova, S. and Patriotta, Gerardo (2020) Politics of meaning in categorizing innovation : how chefs advanced molecular gastronomy by resisting the label. Organization Studies, 41 (2). pp. 267-290. doi:10.1177/0170840619835268 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619835268
Abstract
This study examines innovators’ efforts to conceptualize and communicate their novel work through categorization. Specifically, we view category formation as a controversial process of meaning making, which we theorize through the concept of ‘politics of meaning’ and operationalize through a social semiotics approach. By analyzing the labelling controversies underlying a new culinary style publicized as ‘molecular gastronomy’, we find that innovators’ efforts at categorization unfold along four consecutive stages: experiment ng with a new style, communicating the new style, contesting the dominant label, and legitimating the category meaning. Our study suggests that a new category’s dominant label can substantially deviate from the innovators’ intended denotations, yet nonetheless bring that category forward by triggering public negotiations around its meaning , which lead to categorical deepening and legitimation. By putting forward a ‘politics of meaning’ view on categorizing innovation, this work advances our understanding of the connection between labeling and category formation in the context of innovation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics T Technology > TX Home economics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Molecular gastronomy, Semiotics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 267-290 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840619835268 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Slavich, B., Opazo, P., Svejenova, S. and Patriotta, Gerardo (2018) Labeling and the politics of meaning in category formation : defining avant-garde cuisine. Organization Studies. Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619835268 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 January 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 January 2019 | ||||||||
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