Social movements and activism

Crowd of protesters holding cardboard signs at a street demonstration

ASQ Interview

Corporate Boards with Street Smarts? How Diffuse Street Protests Indirectly Shape Corporate Governance.

By ASQ BlogJune 10, 20250

Seminar audiences kept objecting that executives already read the news, sinking the attention story Muhan Zhang, Forrest Briscoe, and Mark DesJardine started with. ...

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ASQ Interview

Kim & Schifeling (2022). Good Corp, Bad Corp, and the Rise of B Corps: How Market Incumbents’ Diverse Responses Reinvigorate Challengers

By Luke N. HeddenAugust 22, 20230

How did both profit-maximizing giants and sustainability champions fuel the rise of B Corps? Suntae Kim and Todd Schifeling trace the answer, and ...

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ASQ Interview

Toubiana & Ruebottom (2022). Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation

By Yun Ha ChoApril 24, 20231

Cold emails got no response, so Madeline Toubiana and Trish Ruebottom went to the protests. They recount earning the trust of sex workers ...

Climate protesters seated outside an ANZ bank branch displaying a Divest Now banner

ASQ Interview

Gupta & Briscoe (2020) – Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism:

By Abraham OshotseNovember 5, 20221

Can an entire corporation lean red or blue? Abhinav Gupta and Forrest Briscoe describe how employee campaign donations became a measure of organizational ...

Cartoon of two businessmen fencing while standing on a giant handshake

ASQ Interview

Odziemkowska (2022). Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations

By Danielle BovenbergAugust 1, 20220

Why would an activist group team up with its enemy's rival? Kate Odziemkowska traces when firm-activist collaborations form despite ideological opposition, and why ...

ASQ Interview

Massa & O’Mahony (2021). Order from Chaos: How Networked Activists Self-Organize by Creating a Participation Architecture

By Yun Ha ChoApril 21, 20220

How does a leaderless swarm of hackers get anything done? Felipe Massa and Siobhan O'Mahony recount years of watching Anonymous organize in open ...

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ASQ Podcast

Podcast: Buchter (2021). Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists’ Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy

By maggscascaddenDecember 14, 20210

On this episode, Lisa Buchter discusses how LGBT rights activists in France pushed corporate diversity programs past vague commitments by handing organizations ready-to-use ...

ASQ Podcast

PODCAST: Ferguson, Soule & Dudley (2018). Osmotic Mobilization and Union Support during the Long Protest Wave, 1960–1995.

By anjalimbhattJune 13, 20181

John-Paul Ferguson joins the podcast to discuss his paper with Sarah Soule and Thomas Dudley, the army of undergraduates who coded decades of ...

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ASQ Interview

O’Mahony & Bechky (2008). Boundary organizations: Enabling collaboration among unexpected allies

By amyzhaodingJune 28, 20170

Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky revisit a moment when corporate America courting open source communities was genuinely shocking, and explain how boundary organizations ...

Flat crowdfunding illustration of an idea lightbulb surrounded by money bags

ASQ Podcast

Greenberg & Mollick (2017): Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders

By amyzhaodingMay 10, 20170

Ethan Mollick joins the podcast to explain a puzzle he and Jason Greenberg chased: why women outperform men on Kickstarter, and why they ...

Black and white photo of marching workers carrying wage increase protest signs

ASQ Podcast

McDonnell & Werner Dec (2016). Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity

By daphnetehOctober 26, 20160

A Politico article about corporate PACs with bad PR sat on Timothy Werner's back burner until Mary-Hunter McDonnell visited his campus. They discuss ...

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Zietsma & Lawrence (2010). Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work

By mgmauskapfDecember 2, 20151

The path was anything but linear: Charlene Zietsma and Thomas Lawrence recount how two conference papers merged, got bounced from an AMJ special ...

Protesters in bright green shirts marching with signs down a city street

ASQ Interview

Yue, Rao, & Ingram (2013). Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target

By mgmauskapfJanuary 28, 20151

Why did protesters swarm Walmart but mostly spare Target? Lori Yue, Hayagreeva Rao, and Paul Ingram describe the mapping exercise that revealed Target ...

ASQ Interview

Rao & Dutta (2012). Free Spaces as Organizational Weapons of the Weak: Religious Festivals and Regimental Mutinies in the 1857 Bengal Native Army

By colloqAugust 6, 20130

Huggy Rao and Sunasir Dutta recount how a study of the 1857 Bengal Army mutinies began with a phone call to a not-yet-matriculated ...

Tag: Social movements and activism

Corporate Boards with Street Smarts? How Diffuse Street Protests Indirectly Shape Corporate Governance.

Kim & Schifeling (2022). Good Corp, Bad Corp, and the Rise of B Corps: How Market Incumbents’ Diverse Responses Reinvigorate Challengers

Toubiana & Ruebottom (2022). Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation

Gupta & Briscoe (2020) – Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism:

Odziemkowska (2022). Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations

Massa & O’Mahony (2021). Order from Chaos: How Networked Activists Self-Organize by Creating a Participation Architecture

Podcast: Buchter (2021). Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists’ Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy

PODCAST: Ferguson, Soule & Dudley (2018). Osmotic Mobilization and Union Support during the Long Protest Wave, 1960–1995.

O’Mahony & Bechky (2008). Boundary organizations: Enabling collaboration among unexpected allies

Greenberg & Mollick (2017): Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders

McDonnell & Werner Dec (2016). Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity

Top Posts of 2015

Zietsma & Lawrence (2010). Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work

Yue, Rao, & Ingram (2013). Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target

Rao & Dutta (2012). Free Spaces as Organizational Weapons of the Weak: Religious Festivals and Regimental Mutinies in the 1857 Bengal Native Army