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| Author: | Creed, W. E. D. Scully, M. A. Austin, J. R. |
| Title: | Clothes Make the Person? The Tailoring of Legitimating Accounts and the Social Construction of Identity |
| Journal: | Organization Science
2002 : SEP-OCT, VOL. 13:5, p. 475-496 |
| Index terms: | ACCOUNTS WORKING CONDITIONS DISCRIMINATION INSTITUTIONS |
| Freeterms: | Sexual orientation |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors empirically explore the legitimating accounts for and against policies precluding workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, focusing on how agents working at both the national level and within organizations use broader cultural accounts in building their legitimating accounts in local settings. The diffusion perspective in institutional theory has portrayed how agents import "ready-to-wear" cultural accounts. In contrast, translation theory depicts how agents interpret and adapt cultural accounts as they fashion them into legitimating accounts for a local setting. An alternative would theorize accounts that are neither strictly borrowed nor idiosyncratically tailored. |
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