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Social Movement Industries: Competition and Cooperation Among Movement Organizations
Mayer N. Zald,John D. McCarthy +1 more
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The article was published on 1979-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 187 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resource mobilization & Social change.read more
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The Concept of Social Movement
TL;DR: Social movements are networks of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and/or organizations, engaged in political or cultural conflicts, on the basis of shared collective identities.
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Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms
TL;DR: The authors suggests that social movements are important sources of cultural innovation and identifies the scope conditions under which social movements create new organizational forms, which lends substance to the notion of institutional entrepreneurship and enlarges the theoretical reach of neo-institutionalism.
Ideologically motivated activism: How activist groups influence corporate social change activities
F. den Hond,F.G.A. de Bakker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how activism influences corporate social change activities and argue that ideological differences among activist groups motivate them to choose different influence tactics to support their claims, leading to field-level change.
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Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement
TL;DR: Hunt et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the dynamics of interorganizational frame disputes within the nuclear disarmament movement, including their organizational and ideological contexts, conditions conducive to theiremergence, patterns observed, and their effects.
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Caveat emptor : The construction of nonprofit consumer watchdog organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how new organizational forms are constituted as cultural objects and how the boundaries of an organizational form and its cultural contents are shaped by politics, showing that the frame that enjoys greater political support from the state, professions, and other organizations becomes ascendant.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of concepts and related propositions drawn from a resource mobilization perspective, emphasizing the variety and sources of resources; the relationship of social movements to the media, authorities, and other parties; and the interaction among movement organizations.
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Size and Composition of Corporate Boards of Directors: The Organization and its Environment
TL;DR: In this article, a random sample of eighty non-financial corporations, elements of board size and composition were systematically related to factors measuring the organization's requirements for coopting sectors of the environment.