Social Movements, Civil Society and Corporations: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
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The relationships between social movements and civil society on the one hand, and the corporate world on the other hand, are often shaped by conflict over the domination of economic, cultural and social life. How this conflict plays out, in current as well as in historical times and places, is the central question that unites the papers in this special issue. In this essay, we review the differences and points of contact between the study of social movements, civil society and corporations, and offer an agenda for future research at this intersection that also frames the papers in the special issue. We suggest that three research areas are becoming increasingly important: the blurring of the three empirical domains and corresponding opportunities for theoretical integration, the institutional and cultural embeddedness of strategic interaction processes between agents, and the consequences of contestation and collaboration. The papers in this special issue are introduced in how they speak to these questions.
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Frank de Bakker is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Department of Organization Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD from Twente University. His current research focuses on the intersection of institutional theory and social movement theory, with a growing interest in network studies. How NGOs try to impact firms and norms on issues of corporate social responsibility is a central theme in his work which has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Business and Society, Journal of Business Ethics and several other outlets.
Frank den Hond is the Ehrnrooth Professor in Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland). He is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Department of Organization Sciences, at VU University (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). His research interests are at the intersection of business in society, institutional organization theory and social movement studies.
Brayden King is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate governance, organizational change and legislative policymaking. He also studies the ways in which the organizational identities of social movement organizations and businesses emerge and transform in response to their institutional environments.
Klaus Weber (PhD, University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research uses cultural and institutional analysis to understand globalization, the environmental movement, corporate social responsibility and civil society dynamics. His research has been published among others in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, the Academy of Management Journal and the Strategic Management Journal.
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