The More Things Change . . . Institutional Maintenance as Justification Work in the Credit-Rating Industry
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...Jagd (2011) and Taupin (2013) examine the ‘justification work’ by actors who develop moral arguments to support their institutional projects and the complex debates that ensue....
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...Taupin (2012) uncovers the circularity of the justification work engaged in by financial rating agencies to reconstruct their worthiness after the 2008 crisis....
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...The EW framework provides a vocabulary to capture the processes whereby, through their ‘justification work’ (Jagd, 2011; Taupin, 2012), individuals build on these ‘worlds’ to establish or challenge the forming of ‘compromises’ (Thévenot, 2001) in contexts of dispute or tension between worlds…...
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...Other studies using the EW framework have been helpful for advancing our understanding of institutional work, by explaining legitimacy maintenance (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006) as a dynamic combination of multiple orders of worth (Patriotta, Gond, & Schultz, 2011; Ramirez, 2013; Taupin, 2012)....
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...For example, in a longitudinal study of the credit-rating industry, Taupin (2012) shows the different rhetorical and justificatory claims that actors mobilized in order to maintain the legitimacy of the industry in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis....
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...Furthermore, by adopting a dual vision between diffusion and maintenance, several studies have come to consider that a practice considered to be taken for granted was no longer justified (Zucker, 1977; Tolbert & Zucker, 1983; Green, 2004) since the justification was only necessary when the practice was in the process of spreading....
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...…and maintenance, several studies have come to consider that a practice considered to be taken for granted was no longer justified (Zucker, 1977; Tolbert & Zucker, 1983; Green, 2004) since the justification was only necessary when the practice was in the process of spreading. in the material…...
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...Next, Lawrence and Suddaby (2006) noted that in the maintenance process, the way institutional actors lose understanding of their actions remained obscure....
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...…of legitimacy has not been seriously questioned in the case of an environment in which the actors are dealing with a number of institutional logics (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006; Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury, 2012). individuals generally conform to a dominant logic (Thornton, 2002), but Suddaby and…...
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...It is thus truly possible to talk of institutional work (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006; Lawrence, et al., 2009) of justification, which I define as work done publicly by actors, based on the use and arrangement of multiple forms of rationality in a moment of strong contestation intended to promote their…...
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...…field, he considers it an indicator of promising potential for development for empirical studies in the “institutional work” research agenda (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006; Lawrence, Suddaby, & Leca, 2011) . rESEArcH QuESTIon According to the findings of Patriotta, Gond and Schultz (2011),…...
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