Gatekeeping and the Use of Contested Practices in Creative Industries: The Case of Fur in Fashion

The authors thank senior editor Mary-Hunter McDonnell for guidance and two anonymous reviewers for comments. Previous versions of this paper were presented as follows: in 2017, at the Creative Industries Conference in New York; in 2018, at the ESSEC-HEC-INSEAD Management Research Workshop in Paris, the University of Antwerp, the annual Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, Bocconi in Milan, Bayes Business School in London, Economic Sociology Conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and the Organizational Ecology Conference in Nagymaros; and in 2019, at the EHESS in Paris. Forrest Briscoe, Michaela DeSoucey, Paul Hirsch, Brayden King, Alessandro Piazza, Amanda Sharkey, and Dan Wang have provided feedback for which the authors are grateful.