Against the digital revolution? Institutional maintenance and artefacts within the French recorded music industry

Authentication as Institutional Maintenance Work

“…Institutional maintenance work refers to the proactive engagement of actors in the continuous existence of established institutions (Lawrence and Suddaby, ). Such work is particularly visible in the context of a pending threat of deinstitutionalization (Barin Cruz et al, ; Blanc and Huault, ) and under conditions of institutional complexity (Smets and Jarzabkowski, ). Neglect can also make institutions subject to gradual erosion (Dacin et al, ; Lawrence et al, ; Zucker, ).…”

Disassembly and reassembly: An introduction to the Special Issue on digital technology and creative industries

“…Two papers in this Special Issue address these themes. Focusing on the French recorded music industry, Blanc and Huault[62] study the attempts of major labels to maintain the institution of intellectual property rights. They pay particular attention to the way artefacts -specifically, CDs and digital files -are used in discourse and find that powerful actors try to infuse new artefacts with the values inscribed in existing institutional arrangements.…”

On Objects and Material Devices in the Organisational Responses to Institutional Pluralism: Insights from Economies of Worth

“…plurality of principles of action or institutional pluralism 2 (Friedland, 2012;Lanzara & Patriotta, 2007;Leca, Huault, & Boxenbaum, 2015;Tryggestad & Georg, 2011), but little work documents their roles (Blanc & Huault, 2014;Jones, Boxenbaum, & Anthony, 2013) . This research note contributes to this effort by building on the conceptual developments of economies of worth (EW), which are also concerned with how organisations with heterogeneous principles of action function (Boxenbaum,…”