Producing and consuming inequality: a cultural sociology of the cultural industries

O’Brien, Dave, Allen, Kim, Friedman, Sam and Saha, Anamik (2017) Producing and consuming inequality: a cultural sociology of the cultural industries. Cultural Sociology, 11 (3). pp. 271-282. ISSN 1749-9755

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Abstract

Even when shocks in a firm's environment are predictable, their consequences are not. Using the relocation of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium as a rich case of such a disruption, we investigate how combinations of strategic interpretation and spatial distance influence incumbent business owners' decisions to pursue temporal adaptation as a response. Temporal adaptation (TA) comprises timing rather than content changes by the firm seeking to adjust to the reconfigured environment. Survey data from 168 business owners show that strategic interpretation directly influences TA decisions. However, the effect of strategic interpretation on the TA decision is moderated by the spatial (geographic) distance of the incumbent firm from the locus of the disruption. Furthermore, results suggest that through strategic interpretation, spatial distance also indirectly affects the business owners' decisions to make temporal changes. Data collected 1.5 and 4 years later suggest that TA responses are related to performance and may be indicative of a particular type of TA, organizational entrainment (OE), which concerns the synchronization of organizational activity cycles with cycles in the environment

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.sagepub.com/home/cus
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2017 14:12
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2024 00:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84229

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