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Xtending Likages Between Organizational Analysis And Social Structure: A Case Study Of The Celebrity-Construction Of A Chinese Marketplace

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This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same organizational field and characterized by comparable structural positions face similar structural forces. These result in isomorphic tendencies, and similarities among firms. But, in any organizational field, differences among firms also exist. Apart from research on variations resulting from intra-organization factors, however, firm-differentiating processes have not received much attention. This paper focuses on various firm-external social constructions: legitimacy, reputation, and status, and how they impact the emergence of firm-celebrity, a construct that helps to differentiate one firm from another. The paper adopts a historical, relationally framed approach, which features a firm-celebrity case study.

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  • Mark Jacobs, 2009. "Xtending Likages Between Organizational Analysis And Social Structure: A Case Study Of The Celebrity-Construction Of A Chinese Marketplace," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp967, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
    • Handle: RePEc:wdi:papers:2009-967
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    Keywords

    celebrity; structural change; legitimacy; reputation; status; China; Yiwu;
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    JEL classification:

    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
    • N85 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - Asia including Middle East

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