No Barrique, No Berlusconi: Collective Identity, Contention, and Authenticity in the Making of Barolo and Barbaresco Wines
52 Pages Posted: 24 Aug 2007
Date Written: July 2007
Abstract
How does contention over authenticity unfold through social movement processes of mobilization and counter-mobilization? We address this issue by studying how the rise of modern winemaking practices embodied authenticity as creativity, how the success of the modernists triggered a counter-movement seeking to preserve traditional wine-making practices, and how the emergent traditional category was premised on authenticity as conformity to a genre. This counter-movement succeeded in a situation in which market forces seemed destined to displace tradition with modernity.
Keywords: organization theory
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Hannan, Michael and Negro, Giacomo and Rao, Hayagreeva and Leung, Ming De, No Barrique, No Berlusconi: Collective Identity, Contention, and Authenticity in the Making of Barolo and Barbaresco Wines (July 2007). Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 1972, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1008367 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1008367
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