Rhetorical History and the Legitimation of New Industries

Nicholas Wong, Diego Coraiola, Anders Ravn Sørensen, Ian Jones

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    Abstract

    How is rhetorical history used to legitimate new industries that are considered morally dubious or even reprehensible by many stakeholders? This paper seeks to answer this question and in so doing produce an explanatory model that builds on the existing research on rhetorical history (Suddaby et al., 2010) and which also takes advantage of new theoretical advances in management on temporality. We present three short case studies of emerging industries that used rhetorical history to defend themselves against critics that regarded the very existence of such industries as morally objectionable. The existentially controversial industries in question are: the for-profit private military sector, the Canadian recreational marijuana, and the BitCoin cryptocurrency ecosystem.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelProceedings of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
    RedaktørerGuclu Atinc
    Antal sider1
    UdgivelsesstedBriar Cliff Manor, NY
    ForlagAcademy of Management
    Publikationsdato2018
    Artikelnummer14867
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2018
    BegivenhedThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018: Improving Lives - Chicago, USA
    Varighed: 10 aug. 201814 aug. 2018
    Konferencens nummer: 78
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    Konference

    KonferenceThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018
    Nummer78
    Land/OmrådeUSA
    ByChicago
    Periode10/08/201814/08/2018
    Internetadresse
    NavnAcademy of Management Proceedings
    ISSN2151-6561

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