eprintid: 2690
rev_number: 13
eprint_status: archive
userid: 69
dir: disk0/00/00/26/90
datestamp: 2015-05-20 09:02:03
lastmod: 2015-05-22 07:42:39
status_changed: 2015-05-20 09:02:03
type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Cancellieri, Giulia
creators_name: Riccaboni, Massimo
creators_id: giulia.cancellieri@imtlucca.it
creators_id: massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it
title: From La Bohème to La Wally: How Organizational Status
Affects the (Un)conventionality of Opera Repertoires

ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: imt_eic_working_paper
keywords: JEL codes: M1 - Keywords: Status, Nonconformity, Institutional logics, Identity,  Legitimacy, Celebrity, Opera and Arts
abstract: In this paper we examine the relationship between organizational status and nonconformity in complex institutional fields characterized by the enduring tension between divergent institutional logics.  First, we hypothesize the existence of an inverted U-shaped (IUS) relationship between status and nonconformity. Second, we argue that legitimacy and celebrity enhancing signals, that complement the external perception of a firm’s market identity, moderate the relationship between status and nonconformity, by springing up or inhibiting opportunities for firms to protect vs. raise their status position through high status patterns of affiliations. Specifically, we argue that while celebrity enhancing efforts reinforce middle status nonconformist behaviors by emphasizing the exceptional and positive valence of their nonconformist undertakings, legitimacy enhancing signals constraint middle status deviant behaviors and reverse the IUS curve. Unveiling the taken-for-granted traits of their identities hampers middle status ambition to raise the social hierarchy through nonconformity but fosters low and high status freedom of deviance through a reinforced security in their social position. We found strong support for our arguments in statistical analysis of 42 Italian opera houses repertoires from 2004 to 2011.
We synthesize our findings by offering an integrated framework on how the interplay between status, legitimacy and celebrity enhancing signals affects organizations’ ability to depart from established institutional frameworks under conditions of institutional complexity.
date: 2015-05
date_type: published
number: 5
publisher: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
pages: 53
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
issn: 2279-6894
citation:   Cancellieri, Giulia and Riccaboni, Massimo  From La Bohème to La Wally: How Organizational Status Affects the (Un)conventionality of Opera Repertoires.  EIC working paper series  #5/2015    IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.      
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2690/1/WP_2015_5.pdf