TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective emotions in institutional creation work
AU - Farny, Steffen
AU - Kibler, Ewald
AU - Down, Simon
N1 - Funding Information:
Our data collection comprises an extensive range of empirical materials gathered between 2011 and 2016 by one of the authors, hereafter referred to as “the ethnographer” (see Table 1). Following the ethnographic tradition (e.g., Geertz, 1972), field data were collected through field visits at a single geographical site in multiple rounds, as is quite common in ethnographic practice (de Rond & Lok, 2016; Down & Reveley, 2009). Practices of local agents were observed as they occurred, generating data in the form of observation notes and interviews, and from documentary sources. As part of a research project that was partly funded by an international support organization (ISO), and initiated by Sonje Ayïti Organization (cofounded and managed by Gabrielle Aurel and Steve Astrel Mathieu), the Mayor of Limonade had asked the international community for help in scoping the development potential of the community. The ethnographer’s reasons for joining the project as a volunteer were on the one hand practical, to get access to locals to generate a rich research database for writing a doctoral dissertation, and on the other altruistic, to learn from and participate in a project oriented toward sustainable change.
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PY - 2019/6/14
Y1 - 2019/6/14
N2 - In this paper, we explain how and why collective emotions enable institutional creation work. Based on an ethnography in Limonade, a Haitian community affected by the 2010 earthquake, we identify social practices that elicit collective emotions through the creation of new institutions across the three disaster recovery phases. Our study’s key insight is that new institutions converge collective emotions such that they in turn justify ongoing, as well as motivate engagement in new, institutional creation work practices. Theorizing from our findings, we develop a generative model that describes the justifying and motivating function of collective emotions in the establishment of embedded institutions. In conclusion, our paper advances theory on collective emotions in institutional work and generates implications for post-disaster management practice.
AB - In this paper, we explain how and why collective emotions enable institutional creation work. Based on an ethnography in Limonade, a Haitian community affected by the 2010 earthquake, we identify social practices that elicit collective emotions through the creation of new institutions across the three disaster recovery phases. Our study’s key insight is that new institutions converge collective emotions such that they in turn justify ongoing, as well as motivate engagement in new, institutional creation work practices. Theorizing from our findings, we develop a generative model that describes the justifying and motivating function of collective emotions in the establishment of embedded institutions. In conclusion, our paper advances theory on collective emotions in institutional work and generates implications for post-disaster management practice.
U2 - 10.5465/amj.2016.0711
DO - 10.5465/amj.2016.0711
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85069823849
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 62
SP - 765
EP - 799
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 3
ER -