Historical Narratives and the Defense of Stigmatized Industries

被引:11
作者
Smith, Andrew [1 ]
Wong, Nicholas D. [2 ]
Sorensen, Anders Ravn [3 ]
Jones, Ian [4 ]
Coraiola, Diego M. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Liverpool, Management Sch, Chatham St, Liverpool L69 7ZH, Merseyside, England
[2] Northumbria Univ, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England
[3] Copenhagen Business Sch, Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark
[4] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
[5] Univ Alberta, Camrose, AB, Canada
关键词
stigma; business & government; business & society; attitudes; INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; POLARIZATION; IDENTITY; CANADA; ORGANIZATIONS; CATEGORIES; CANNABIS; VIOLENCE; FIELDS; VALUES;
D O I
10.1177/10564926211019481
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This study examines how managers and entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries use historical narratives to combat stigma. We examine two industries, the private military contractors (PMC) industry in the United States and the cannabis industry in Canada. In recent decades, the representatives of these industries have worked to reduce the level of stigmatization faced by the industries. We show that historical narratives were used rhetorically by the representatives of both industries. In both cases, these historical narratives were targeted at just one subset of the population. Our research contributes to debates about stigmatization in ideologically diverse societies, an important issue that have been overlooked by the existing literature on stigmatized industries, which tends to assume the existence of homogeneous audiences when researching the efforts of industry representatives to destigmatize their industries.
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页码:386 / 404
页数:19
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