TY - JOUR
T1 - Unlevel playing fields: Gender and its role in the early stages of institutional fields
AU - Song, EY
AU - Hinings, C. R. (Bob)
N1 - © 2023 Academy of Management
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PY - 2023/7/24
Y1 - 2023/7/24
N2 - Institutional studies on fields have been neglectful of gender. To extend the boundaries of current understanding of institutional fields, we develop a theory by drawing insights from doing gender and gender-status beliefs theories and by considering fields as relational spaces within which diverse actors interact with one another on particular issues. We argue that gender plays a key role in the emerging fields in three ways; (1) issues themselves are often gender-marked, (2) issue-leading roles such as organizers of field configuring events are gendered, and (3) gender composition of field participants influences the development of new fields into the next stages. In considering the gendered nature of issues, issue-leading roles, and gender makeup of field participants, we introduce a new model of the early stage of fields to explain gendered dynamics that structure interactions and shape the development of new fields. With our model, we advance the existing literature on early stages of institutional fields.
AB - Institutional studies on fields have been neglectful of gender. To extend the boundaries of current understanding of institutional fields, we develop a theory by drawing insights from doing gender and gender-status beliefs theories and by considering fields as relational spaces within which diverse actors interact with one another on particular issues. We argue that gender plays a key role in the emerging fields in three ways; (1) issues themselves are often gender-marked, (2) issue-leading roles such as organizers of field configuring events are gendered, and (3) gender composition of field participants influences the development of new fields into the next stages. In considering the gendered nature of issues, issue-leading roles, and gender makeup of field participants, we introduce a new model of the early stage of fields to explain gendered dynamics that structure interactions and shape the development of new fields. With our model, we advance the existing literature on early stages of institutional fields.
U2 - 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.10076abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.10076abstract
M3 - Conference article
SN - 2151-6561
VL - 2023
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
M1 - 10076
ER -