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Incomplete institutional change and the persistence of racial inequality: the contestation of institutional misalignment in South Africa
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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:14 authored by Ansellia Adams, John Da Silva LuizJohn Da Silva LuizThis study explores the role that organizations and institutions play in reproducing inequality even after significant political transitions intended to undermine the sources of such inequality. Our analysis reveals how incomplete institutional transitions may give rise to contradictory institutional logics and how this can contribute to high levels of contestation as actors and organizations vie to maintain, disrupt, and create new institutions. We analyse the dynamics of a conflict set within a broader institutional contestation in post-apartheid South Africa by examining the farmworkers strike and unrest of 2012. We expose a complex interlocking system of exploitation and oppression at micro, meso, and macro institutional levels and highlight misalignments between de facto and de jure institutional environments. Our study shows how actors and organizations can exhibit and constrain agency legitimating the unequal access to resources and opportunities and why this can result in the persistence of inequality.
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Journal of Management StudiesISSN
0022-2380Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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1-29Department affiliated with
- Strategy and Marketing Publications
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2022-01-11First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-01-11First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2022-01-11Usage metrics
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