What's in a Name?: Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category

Barbara Slavich; Silviya Svejenova; Maria Pilar Opazo; Gerardo Patriotta

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2016.78

What's in a Name? Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category

Barbara Slavich, Silviya Svejenova, Maria Pilar Opazo, Gerardo Patriotta

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Abstract

This study examines how a new category gains form and meaning in the presence of multiple logics, competing labels, and multiple modes of sensegiving and sensemaking. We analyze the work of four emblematic chefs associated with the emerging category of ‘molecular gastronomy’ from 1995 to 2015: Grant Achatz, Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal, and Massimo Bottura. We show that category formation is a circular and iterative process, consisting of three sub-processes that take place recurrently until its stabilization: creation of innovative work, contestation emerging from the misinterpretation of innovators’ efforts, and consolidation of the meanings and practices associated with the new category. Our study reveals that a new category’s label that is in opposition with the intended meaning of the creators can nonetheless bring that category forward by triggering creators’ engagement in politics of meaning. We conclude by discussing the implications of our work and outlining future research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Editors	John Humphreys
Number of pages	5
Place of Publication	Briar Cliff Manor, NY
Publisher	Academy of Management
Publication date	2016
Pages	1378-1382
Article number	15555
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2016.78
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016: Making Organizations Meaningful - Anaheim, United States Duration: 5 Aug 2016 → 9 Aug 2016 Conference number: 76 http://aom.org/annualmeeting/

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Conference	The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016
Number	76
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anaheim
Period	05/08/2016 → 09/08/2016
Internet address	http://aom.org/annualmeeting/

Series	Academy of Management Proceedings
ISSN	2151-6561

Keywords

Artifacts
Categorization
Labeling

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Slavich, B, Svejenova, S, Opazo, MP & Patriotta, G 2016, What's in a Name? Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category. in J Humphreys (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management., 15555, Academy of Management, Briar Cliff Manor, NY, Academy of Management Proceedings, pp. 1378-1382, The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016, Anaheim, United States, 05/08/2016. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2016.78

What's in a Name? Giving Form and Meaning to a New Culinary Category. / Slavich, Barbara; Svejenova, Silviya; Opazo, Maria Pilar et al.
Proceedings of the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. / John Humphreys. Briar Cliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management, 2016. p. 1378-1382 15555 (Academy of Management Proceedings).

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