CAN I SELL YOU AVOCADOES AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT CONTRACEPTION? WELL, IT DEPENDS WHICH COMES FIRST: ANCHOR ROLES AND ASYMMETRIC BOUNDARIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shulist, Patrick; Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Kistruck, Geoffrey M.; Nguni, Winnie
• 署名单位: Aalto University; Babson College; York University - Canada; University of Dar es Salaam
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2020.1821
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1768-1802
• 关键词: to-work spillover; BUSINESS RESEARCH; FAMILY RESEARCH; IDENTITY; community; CONFLICT; perceptions; exploration; view

摘要

Role theory generally predicts that when the demands and norms of two roles are highly contrasted, individuals will construct a strong boundary to separate the roles. However, such predictions are grounded primarily in the Global North, emphasizing role pairings including work-family and hybrid work-work. Comparatively, the Global South is characterized by a lack of public services that creates a highly contrasted, highly salient, and yet understudied role pairing-work-community. Additionally, the socioeconomic features of the Global South (e.g., dense and overlapping community networks, financial poverty) call into question whether existing predictions surrounding boundary strength are likely to hold. We conducted a qualitative study of 73 Tanzanian participants who had both a self-employed work role and a family planning counselor community role. We found that highly contrasted roles can be simultaneously perceived as both incompatible and compatible. Specifically, the boundarieswe observed were neither uniformly strong nor weak, but rather of asymmetric strength: strong when a social interaction was anchored in the community role, but weak when anchored in the work role. The specific role contrasts we identify, and the importance of role anchoring we observe, have important implications for role theory and boundary-setting more broadly.