Rhetorical History and the Legitimation of New Industries

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

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14867abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Editors	Guclu Atinc
Number of pages	1
Place of Publication	Briar Cliff Manor, NY
Publisher	Academy of Management
Publication date	2018
Article number	14867
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14867abstract
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018: Improving Lives - Chicago, United States Duration: 10 Aug 2018 → 14 Aug 2018 Conference number: 78 http://aom.org/annualmeeting/

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Conference	The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018
Number	78
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	10/08/2018 → 14/08/2018
Internet address	http://aom.org/annualmeeting/

Series	Academy of Management Proceedings
ISSN	2151-6561

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Wong, N, Coraiola, D, Ravn Sørensen, A & Jones, I 2018, Rhetorical History and the Legitimation of New Industries. in G Atinc (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management., 14867, Academy of Management, Briar Cliff Manor, NY, Academy of Management Proceedings, The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 10/08/2018. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14867abstract

Rhetorical History and the Legitimation of New Industries. / Wong, Nicholas; Coraiola, Diego; Ravn Sørensen, Anders et al.
Proceedings of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. / Guclu Atinc. Briar Cliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management, 2018. 14867 (Academy of Management Proceedings).

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