Emergent Identity Work and Institutional Change: The ‘Quiet’ Revolution of Japanese Middle-Class Housewives

Leung, A; Zietsma, C; Peredo, AM

Emergent Identity Work and Institutional Change: The ‘Quiet’ Revolution of Japanese Middle-Class Housewives

Leung, A Zietsma, C

Peredo, AM

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications Ltd
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Asian Entrepreneurship, 2014, 1
Issue Date:: 2014

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dc.contributor.author	Leung, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zietsma, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6439-3320	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Peredo, AM	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Dana, LP	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Asian Entrepreneurship, 2014, 1	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781473913813	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122470
dc.description.abstract	How do relatively low-power, role-constrained actors break through their constraints in a highly institutionalized environment? Examining the experience of Japanese middle-class housewives involved in a social enterprise, we developed a model of emergent identity work which outlines how actors who enacted their role values in new domains triggered a process of learning and sensemaking which led to spiralling cycles of role boundary expansion. In this process, facilitated by an enabling collective, actors not only changed their own self-concept (internal identity work) but also, through external identity work, changed others’ conceptions of their institutionally prescribed roles.	en_US
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd	en_US
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dc.rights	Asian Entrepreneurship, 2014, 1. Copyright © 2014 SAGE Publications Ltd. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840613498529	en_US
dc.title	Emergent Identity Work and Institutional Change: The ‘Quiet’ Revolution of Japanese Middle-Class Housewives	en_US
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Abstract:

How do relatively low-power, role-constrained actors break through their constraints in a highly institutionalized environment? Examining the experience of Japanese middle-class housewives involved in a social enterprise, we developed a model of emergent identity work which outlines how actors who enacted their role values in new domains triggered a process of learning and sensemaking which led to spiralling cycles of role boundary expansion. In this process, facilitated by an enabling collective, actors not only changed their own self-concept (internal identity work) but also, through external identity work, changed others’ conceptions of their institutionally prescribed roles.

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