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DESCRIPTION:\n\nMr. Jack Sadek\, a doctoral student at 91şÚÁĎÍř in
  the area of Strategy & Organization will be presenting his research propo
 sal entitled:\n\nOUT OF THE SHADOWS: CATEGORY EMERGENCE IN THE INFORMAL EC
 ONOMY\n\n Wednesday\, May 15\, 2024 at 10:00am – 12:30pm\n\n(The presentat
 ion will be conducted in hybrid mode)\n\nStudent Committee Chair: Professo
 r Robert Nason\n\nPlease note that the presentation will be conducted in h
 ybrid mode and only the student and committee members may participate.\n\n
 \nABSTRACT: \n\nA growing body of literature has made progress in understa
 nding new market categories. However\, the literature\, as most literature
  in management\, has focused on categories that emerge from the formal eco
 nomy where legitimacy and legality are closely intertwined. The informal e
 conomy is shaped and deemed legitimate based on informal institutions whil
 e illegal based on formal institutions. Many categories do emerge from the
  informal economy such as the streaming music and cannabis industries. Unf
 ortunately\, we know little about the process and consequences of informal
  category emergence.\n\nThis dissertation seeks to address this central is
 sue through two studies of the cryptocurrency category. Cryptocurrencies\,
  a new form of internet money\, originated from the cypherpunk social move
 ment in the dark web with an original use case tied to illegal activity su
 ch as drug trade and murder for hire. Despite this stigmatization and info
 rmal economy origins\, cryptocurrency has grown into a $2 trillion market 
 with widespread adoption by retail investors\, financial institutions\, an
 d governments. My empirical analysis traces and deconstructs this unique c
 ategory’s trajectory\, using it to not only extend the phenomenological sc
 ope of category emergence study but also to scrutinize underlying assumpti
 ons in the literature and build new theory. Practically\, the dissertation
  is structured into three chapters – one brief “table setting” conceptual 
 chapter and two distinct in-depth empirical investigations.\n\nThe first c
 hapter of my dissertation provides an overview of the theoretical and empi
 rical setting. I first expand on what we know regarding category formation
  and how it has mainly focused on categories emerging from the formal econ
 omy. I contend that examining categories in the context of the informal ec
 onomy can be a fruitful avenue to expand our theoretical understanding. Fu
 rthermore\, I combine literature on stigma\, with the informal economy to 
 provide a more nuanced differentiation between the formal and informal eco
 nomy. This approach examines category emergence by analyzing the informal 
 economy\, motivating theoretically generative avenues to pursue.\n\nThe se
 cond chapter takes a macro-perspective and focuses on the transition of cr
 yptocurrencies from the informal to the formal economy. I focus on the rol
 e of regulators who have been identified as influential actors but largely
  ignored. I propose an archival study to examine the narratives created by
  regulatory agencies in the United States. I am in the process of sampling
  from over four thousand press releases\, public statements\, and rulings 
 from the U.S. Congress and government enforcement agencies. Taking a narra
 tive analysis approach\, I will use a combination of topic modeling and in
 ductive qualitative methods\, to track the evolution of the narrative surr
 ounding cryptocurrencies. The third chapter focuses on internal category d
 ynamics and challenges a dominant assumption that a collective identity is
  needed to legitimize the category. The emergent cryptocurrency category c
 hallenges this as it is characterized by intense infighting. I use this no
 vel context to explore how the category’s identity is shaped by three of t
 he most notable cryptocurrencies Bitcoin\, Ethereum\, and XRP. To examine 
 this\, I use a unique data set of over one million tweets from 58 subject 
 positions\, individuals across the communities who have a legitimate voice
  and shape the discourse. I find that while the category beacon uses a Dis
 course of Protection to create a prototypical category identity\, challeng
 ers use a Discourse of Inclusion resulting in a goal-directed category ide
 ntity. My dissertation aims to elucidate category emergence from the infor
 mal economy\, the role of regulators\, and challenges taken for granted as
 sumptions about collective identity.\n
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SUMMARY:PhD Research Proposal Presentation: Jack Sadek
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