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    Resourcing Under Tensions: How frontline employees create resources to balance paradoxical tensions
    (SAGE Journals, 2020-04-27) Bullinger, Bernadette; Schneider, Anna; Brandl, Julia; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    Managing resources and tensions at the front line is crucial for organizational success. To advance our understanding of how frontline employees turn assets into useful resources under tensions, we draw on research on resourcing and practices of responding to paradoxical tensions. Our ethnographic study of employees in a multinational retail fashion company finds three resourcing practices – situational reframing, organizational preframing and institutional deframing – that enable frontline employees to balance tensions. We contribute to both the resourcing perspective and to research on individuals’ responses to paradoxical tensions, first, by identifying the varying scopes of meaning (situational, organizational or institutional) that employees infuse potential resources with; second, by extending the notion of framing to understand how resourcing is accomplished interactively in tension-laden situations; and third, by explaining how employees’ construction of tensions is related to their dynamic moves between resourcing practices.
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    The logic of attraction: exploring the institutional complexity of job preferences
    (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020) Petry, Tanja; Treisch, Corinna; Bullinger, Bernadette; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    Purpose: Applying the institutional logics perspective to applicant attraction,this study investigates the level of uniformity among preferences for consulting job attributes associated with the institutional logics of the corporation,the profession and the family,and tests for the influence of anticipatory socialization differences. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a discrete choice experiment with 232 business students. A hierarchical Bayes approach to conjoint analysis uncovers part-worth heterogeneity and allows for subsequent cluster and regression analysis of the choice data. Findings: The findings identify a dominant job-oriented preference type and a minor career-oriented preference type. Anticipatory socialization through personal prior work experience and the occupation of friends decreases adherence to the logic of profession and increases the relevance of the family logic. The parents' occupation has only a minimal influence on preferences. Practical implications: The study provides attribute-based recommendations on how professional service firms can effectively address the complex expectations of potential applicants in their job ads for an entry position and underlines the role of intra-generational reference groups as important anticipatory socializers. Originality/value: By testing individual socialization effects at the pre-hire stage and beyond the organizational level,the study fills a void in both the recruitment and the institutional literature. © 2020,Tanja Petry,Corinna Treisch and Bernadette Bullinger.