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作者:King, Marissa D.; Haveman, Heather A.
作者单位:Columbia University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:We analyze how communications networks and social institutions influenced the growth of the antislavery movement in the U. S. from 1790 to 1840. Communications networks fueled by print media transmitted news about the movement to the public and so helped mobilize a broad base of support. Among social institutions, churches were especially supportive because their emphasis on morality and community was conducive to antislavery activism. Our analysis focuses on the founding of antislavery societ...
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作者:O'Mahony, Siobhan; Bechky, Beth A.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要:Our research examines how parties challenging established social systems collaborate with defenders of those systems to achieve mutual goals. With field interviews and observations from four community projects in the open-source movement, we examine how these projects collaborated with firms defending proprietary approaches to software development. Drawing on social movement and organizational theory, we explain how challenging parties not only mobilize to achieve their goals but how they are ...
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作者:King, Brayden G.
作者单位:Northwestern University
摘要:This paper uses a theory of social movement outcomes, the political mediation model, to explain why certain corporations targeted by boycotts are more likely to concede to boycotters' demands. Hypotheses developed from this model predict that boycotts threaten tangible and intangible resources held by corporate targets, that these threats are transmitted indirectly through media coverage of the boycotts, that past declines in sales or reputation create opportunities for a movement to have infl...
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作者:Briscoe, Forrest; Safford, Sean
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Chicago
摘要:This paper seeks to understand how contentious practices spread from initial targets of activism to become accepted by organizations in the mainstream. Using a dataset on the diffusion of domestic partner benefits in the Fortune 500 from 1990 to 2005, we show that widespread adoption among mainstream firms was triggered by the prior adoptions of companies known to resist activism. We also find that employee activist groups within firms played a different role depending on the company's orienta...
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作者:Weber, Klaus; Heinze, Kathryn L.; DeSoucey, Michaela
作者单位:Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要:This study illuminates how new markets emerge and how social movements can effect cultural change through market creation. We suggest that social movements can fuel solutions to three challenges in creating new market segments: entrepreneurial production, the creation of collective producer identities, and the establishment of regular exchange between producers and consumers. We use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy pro...
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作者:Zald, Mayer N.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Davis, Gerald F.; Morrill, Calvin; Rao, Hayagreeva; Soule, Sarah A.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Stanford University