Grace Augustine and colleagues followed the recycling coordinators that the environmental movement pushed into organizations, and found what happens to movement-backed occupations after ...
Tag: Social movements and activism
ASQ Interview
CSR as Hedging Against Institutional Transition Risk: Corporate Philanthropy After the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan
Why did Taiwanese firms step up corporate philanthropy after the Sunflower Movement? Yishu Cai on charitable giving as a hedge against institutional transition ...
ASQ Interview
Corporate Boards with Street Smarts? How Diffuse Street Protests Indirectly Shape Corporate Governance.
Seminar audiences kept objecting that executives already read the news, sinking the attention story Muhan Zhang, Forrest Briscoe, and Mark DesJardine started with. ...
ASQ Interview
Kim & Schifeling (2022). Good Corp, Bad Corp, and the Rise of B Corps: How Market Incumbents’ Diverse Responses Reinvigorate Challengers
How did both profit-maximizing giants and sustainability champions fuel the rise of B Corps? Suntae Kim and Todd Schifeling trace the answer, and ...
ASQ Interview
Toubiana & Ruebottom (2022). Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation
Cold emails got no response, so Madeline Toubiana and Trish Ruebottom went to the protests. They recount earning the trust of sex workers ...
ASQ Interview
Gupta & Briscoe (2020) – Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Openness to Social Activism:
Can an entire corporation lean red or blue? Abhinav Gupta and Forrest Briscoe describe how employee campaign donations became a measure of organizational ...
ASQ Interview
Odziemkowska (2022). Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm–Activist Collaborations
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
How does a leaderless swarm of hackers get anything done? Felipe Massa and Siobhan O'Mahony recount years of watching Anonymous organize in open ...
ASQ Podcast
Podcast: Buchter (2021). Escaping the Ellipsis of Diversity: Insider Activists’ Use of Implementation Resources to Influence Organization Policy
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.
John-Paul Ferguson joins the podcast to discuss his paper with Sarah Soule and Thomas Dudley, the army of undergraduates who coded decades of ...
ASQ Interview
O’Mahony & Bechky (2008). Boundary organizations: Enabling collaboration among unexpected allies
Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky revisit a moment when corporate America courting open source communities was genuinely shocking, and explain how boundary organizations ...
ASQ Podcast
Greenberg & Mollick (2017): Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders
Ethan Mollick joins the podcast to explain a puzzle he and Jason Greenberg chased: why women outperform men on Kickstarter, and why they ...
ASQ Podcast
McDonnell & Werner Dec (2016). Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity
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 ...
Our five most-read posts of 2015, led by Pahnke, Katila, and Eisenhardt on partners' institutional logics and a behind-the-scenes conversation with ASQ managing ...
ASQ Interview
Zietsma & Lawrence (2010). Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work
The path was anything but linear: Charlene Zietsma and Thomas Lawrence recount how two conference papers merged, got bounced from an AMJ special ...
ASQ Interview
Yue, Rao, & Ingram (2013). Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target
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
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 ...