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Heated atmosphere: Organizational emotions and field structuring in online climate change debates
Meyer, Renate E.
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Oberg, Achim
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Lefsrud, Lianne
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URL:
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https://bach.wu.ac.at/d/research/results/93690/
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Document Type:
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Conference presentation
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Year of publication:
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2019
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Conference title:
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17th Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research SCANCOR Workshop on Institutional Analysis
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Location of the conference venue:
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Mannheim, Germany
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Date of the conference:
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26.-30.08.2019
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Business School > Mittelstandsforschung u. Entrepreneurship (Woywode 2007-)
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Abstract:
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We use an organizational issue field to conceptualize how organizations partake in the signification of amorphous, yet intransigent issues – such as climate change. Following a network conception, field structure is captured as the linkages between organizations. Besides meaning system, and values, emotional expressions can affect the positioning of organizations within the field and, hence, how they define, debate, and address the core issue. Thus, we ask: How do framings, values, and emotion affect the structure of an organizational issue field? We answer our research question by synthesizing theories of fields, structuring, and emotion. By completing a network analysis of the online climate change debate, we find that organizations are most likely to link to other organizations expressing similar emotions – resembling organizational emotional entrainment. Expressed emotionality influences organizations’ positions in an organizational issue field even beyond cognitive framings like issue stance, values like moral worldviews, and typical in-group clusterings like organizational type or political orientation.
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