Field Configuration Through Tournament Rituals: The Case of the Booker Prize
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Abstract
In this article we theorize the ways in which tournament rituals, in the form of prominent industry award ceremonies, configure organizational fields. We review field theory to distill four criteria that field-configuring mechanisms should conform to. We then use an archival study of the Booker Prize from its inception in 1969 to explore how this tournament ritual has shaped the field of post-colonial literary fiction. We show that enactment of ritual results in three field configuring effects that conform to criteria derived from the theory. |
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| Dicea Jansen |
