CUSTODIANSHIP ACROSS GENERATIONS:PRESERVING THE PRACTICE OF VINYLRECORD MANUFACTURING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wiedner, Rene; Dacin, M. tina; Furnari, Santi
• 署名单位: University of Warwick; Queens University - Canada; City St Georges, University of London; Stanford University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2022.0605
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1428-1462
• 关键词: institutions; emergence; ENCHANTMENT; INNOVATION; creation; CRISIS; logic; field; work; die

摘要

Drawing on a global, longitudinal case study of the vinyl record manufacturing practicefollowing a global decline in sales, we examine the work undertaken to preserve it overtime. Our process model of practice preservation highlights that a declining practicemay persist across generations if it is made more accessible and resilient by reducing itsdependence on specific types of meanings, materials, and competences that risk beinglost. Our analysis suggests that these outcomes depend on the work of two types ofcustodians-legacy professionals and new enthusiasts-in terms ofdiversifyingthepractice to accommodate multiple configurations of meanings, materials, and compe-tences, thus constituting new practice variants, as well as supporting the continuedenactment of variants over time by engaging in processes we labelpropping up,recovering,replenishing,andreleasing.In addition to developing a rich under-standing of preservation, our findings contribute to a nuanced perspective on practiceevolution by conceptualizing a practice as comprising multiple, potentially fluid var-iants. Moreover, by highlighting inclusive custodianship processes, which differ fromgatekeeping and guarding so far emphasized, and by unpacking the role of materials tocomplement the traditional emphasis on symbolic elements, our findings enrich thenascent custodianship literature