Regulatory categorization can be a matter of life and death to firms, as it sets legal limitations
on the production and sales of their product. In this paper we set out to uncover this critical …

Research on social categories has become one of the more active lines of research on
organizations. Much of this research presumes the pre-existence of at least the “seed” of the …

Abstract Research Summary How do new things in nascent markets become legitimate?
Existing research points to a process where legitimacy is built by making associations with …

In a growing body of literature on categorization in organization theory, researchers are
exploring the stabilizing role of categories and the processes by which they emerge …

Research Summary Although scholarship has demonstrated that market categories offer
important signals to entrepreneurs about which goods and services are valued, little …

This paper explores the cultural dynamics underpinning platformization by unpacking the
emergence of the sharing economy—a vital terrain of platformization—as a culturally …

In mediated markets, the categorization of products by mediators is critical to efficient
interaction between producers and consumers. As organizational research tends to focus on …

There has, in recent times, been an increasing interest in history, broadly defined, among
management scholars. But what specifically a historical approach or perspective can …

Category emergence has been a central question in organization theory. Yet, we still do not
understand what drives category persistence and updating during emergence as new …

This article explores the status-attainment process of entrepreneurial firms in emerging
categories. Previous literature emphasizes that in emerging categories, being perceived as …