Legitimacy and reputation in the institutional field of food safety: A public relations case study.
(2013) In Public Relations Inquiry 2(2). p.243-265- Abstract
- The overall objective of this study is to examine how the institutional context of food
safety affects and is affected by concerns for legitimacy and reputation. The paper
employs a neo-institutional approach to analyzing the institutional field of food safety in a
case study of a multinational food service provider where a tension between conflicting
institutional logics implied a reputational challenge. The study shows how food safety as
a well-defined operational risk is transformed into a high-priority reputational risk and
how actors in the field of food safety are caught in a state of mutual distrust, partly as
a consequence of an intense politicization of food risk over... (More) - The overall objective of this study is to examine how the institutional context of food
safety affects and is affected by concerns for legitimacy and reputation. The paper
employs a neo-institutional approach to analyzing the institutional field of food safety in a
case study of a multinational food service provider where a tension between conflicting
institutional logics implied a reputational challenge. The study shows how food safety as
a well-defined operational risk is transformed into a high-priority reputational risk and
how actors in the field of food safety are caught in a state of mutual distrust, partly as
a consequence of an intense politicization of food risk over the past years and partly as
a result of their respective concerns for legitimacy. The study points to how the field
of food safety is colonized by a reputational logic that is paradoxically reproduced by
actors at all organizational levels even though they strongly oppose to this logic. (Less)
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- Merkelsen, Henrik LU
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- 2013
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- published
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- keywords
- Food safety, institutionalism, legitimacy, public relations, risk
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- Public Relations Inquiry
- volume
- 2
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 243 - 265
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- SAGE Publications
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- 2046-147X
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- 10.1177/2046147X13485368
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- English
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safety affects and is affected by concerns for legitimacy and reputation. The paper<br/><br>
employs a neo-institutional approach to analyzing the institutional field of food safety in a<br/><br>
case study of a multinational food service provider where a tension between conflicting<br/><br>
institutional logics implied a reputational challenge. The study shows how food safety as<br/><br>
a well-defined operational risk is transformed into a high-priority reputational risk and<br/><br>
how actors in the field of food safety are caught in a state of mutual distrust, partly as<br/><br>
a consequence of an intense politicization of food risk over the past years and partly as<br/><br>
a result of their respective concerns for legitimacy. The study points to how the field<br/><br>
of food safety is colonized by a reputational logic that is paradoxically reproduced by<br/><br>
actors at all organizational levels even though they strongly oppose to this logic.}},
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language = {{eng}},
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pages = {{243--265}},
publisher = {{SAGE Publications}},
series = {{Public Relations Inquiry}},
title = {{Legitimacy and reputation in the institutional field of food safety: A public relations case study.}},
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