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Vaast, Emmanuelle and Levina, Natalia (2015) Speaking as one, but not speaking up : dealing with new moral taint in an occupational online community. Information Systems Research, 25 (2). pp. 73-98. doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2015.02.001 ISSN 1047-7047.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2015.02.001
Abstract
This paper builds a process theory of how participants in an online community deal with a new identity threat. Based upon the in-depth, interpretive case study of an online community of retail bankers, it develops a grounded theory that reveals that participants in an online community deal with new taint by protecting their occupation's identity but not by attempting to repair its external image. In the investigated community, reactions progressed from rejecting the taint to distancing from it and, finally, resigning to it. Overall, the dynamics of an occupational online community reveal that the objective of protecting the existing identity of its members supersede that of taking a more proactive stance to address the identity threat and attempt to influence new regulations affecting the occupation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bankers -- Attitudes -- Case studies, Mixed methods research, Reputation, Online etiquette, Online identities | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Information Systems Research | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1047-7047 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2015 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 73-98 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2015.02.001 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 February 2018 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 February 2018 |
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