Maintaining market legitimacy: A discursive-hegemonic perspective on meat

Wiart, L., Özçağlar-Toulouse, N. and Shaw, D. (2022) Maintaining market legitimacy: A discursive-hegemonic perspective on meat. Journal of Business Research, 144, pp. 391-402. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.024)

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Abstract

The current and ongoing planetary crisis is further challenging previously legitimized markets, yet in consumer research insight into maintaining legitimacy in markets subject to multiple forms of contestation has been overlooked. While existing research focuses on one type of contestation in isolation, we focus on multiple forms of market challenge, differentiating between practical and symbolic forms of contestation. In doing so, we contribute to consumer research literature through an examination of the differing logics at play in the process of market legitimacy maintenance. Drawing on a discursive-hegemonic perspective, we theorize two different hegemonic logics that contribute to sustaining market legitimacy. As research traditionally focuses on meaning reconstruction and negotiation in the face of contestation (often theorized as co-optation), in this research we also point out the existence of another logic of meaning, namely, naturalization.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Shaw, Professor Deirdre
Authors: Wiart, L., Özçağlar-Toulouse, N., and Shaw, D.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School
College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
Journal Name:Journal of Business Research
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0148-2963
ISSN (Online):1873-7978
Published Online:12 February 2022
Copyright Holders:Copyright © © 2022 Elsevier Inc.
First Published:First published in Journal of Business Research 144: 391-402
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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