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Social movements, power and inequality

Social movements, politics, elites, conflict and inequality.

Of its 74 readings, 20 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 54 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

In the theory tree: grows out of 8 Institutional theory; leads to 14 Nonmarket strategy and corporate social responsibility.

Drawn from: Yue (USC); Maoret (IESE); Pollock (Tennessee); Henisz (Wharton); Marquis (HBS); Dobbin (Harvard); Lounsbury & Zhao (Oxford Bibliographies); Anteby (Boston University); Jia (USC); Lu, Li, Park, Yang & Yan (CityU); Clough (UBC); Peng (UT Dallas); DiMaggio (Princeton); Sullivan (HKUST); Yao (HBS); Zuckerman (MIT). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 0 readings<19501950s: 1 reading1950s1960s: 1 reading1960s1970s: 4 readings1970s1980s: 3 readings1980s1990s: 8 readings1990s2000s: 25 readings2000s2010s: 30 readings302010s2020s: 1 reading2020s
Most date from the 2010s; half were published in 2008 or later.

Core readings

In 4 or more sources.

  1. Rao, H., Monin, P., & Durand, R. (2003). Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy. American Journal of Sociology, 108(4), 795–843. https://doi.org/10.1086/3679176
  2. King, B. G., & Soule, S. A. (2007). Social Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protests on Stock Price Returns. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(3), 413–442. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.52.3.4135
  3. McCarthy, J. D., & Zald, M. N. (1977). Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory. American Journal of Sociology, 82(6), 1212–1241. https://doi.org/10.1086/2264644
  4. Davis, G. F., McAdam, D., Scott, W. R., & Zald, M. N. (Eds.). (2005). Social Movements and Organization Theory. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo97805117910004
  5. King, B. G. (2008). A Political Mediation Model of Corporate Response to Social Movement Activism. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 395–421. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.3954
  6. Weber, K., Heinze, K. L., & DeSoucey, M. (2008). Forage for Thought: Mobilizing Codes in the Movement for Grass-fed Meat and Dairy Products. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 529–567. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.5294
  7. Hiatt, S. R., Sine, W. D., & Tolbert, P. S. (2009). From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(4), 635–667. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2009.54.4.6354

Also assigned

In 2 to 3 sources.

  1. Davis, G. F., & Thompson, T. A. (1994). A Social Movement Perspective on Corporate Control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39(1), 141. https://doi.org/10.2307/23934973
  2. Davis, G. F., Morrill, C., Rao, H., & Soule, S. A. (2008). Introduction: Social Movements in Organizations and Markets. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 389–394. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.3893
  3. Weber, K., Rao, H., & Thomas, L. G. (2009). From Streets to Suites: How the Anti- Biotech Movement Affected German Pharmaceutical Firms. American Sociological Review, 74(1), 106–127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122409074001063
  4. Yue, L. Q., Rao, H., & Ingram, P. (2013). Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(4), 669–701. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392135112433
  5. Mills, C. W. (1956). The Power Elite. Oxford University Press.2
  6. O'Mahony, S., & Bechky, B. A. (2008). Boundary Organizations: Enabling Collaboration among Unexpected Allies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 422–459. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.4222
  7. Hambrick, D. C., & Chen, M.-J. (2008). New Academic Fields as Admittance-Seeking Social Movements: The Case of Strategic Management. Academy of Management Review, 33(1), 32–54. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.277450272
  8. Ingram, P., Yue, L. Q., & Rao, H. (2010). Trouble in Store: Probes, Protests, and Store Openings by Wal‐Mart, 1998–2007. American Journal of Sociology, 116(1), 53–92. https://doi.org/10.1086/6535962
  9. Wang, D. J., & Soule, S. A. (2012). Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–1995. American Journal of Sociology, 117(6), 1674–1722. https://doi.org/10.1086/6646852
  10. McDonnell, M.-H., King, B. G., & Soule, S. A. (2015). A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges. American Sociological Review, 80(3), 654–678. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224155813352
  11. McDonnell, M.-H., & Werner, T. (2016). Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(4), 584–620. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392166489532
  12. Briscoe, F., & Gupta, A. (2016). Social Activism in and Around Organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 10(1), 671–727. https://doi.org/10.5465/19416520.2016.11532612
  13. Chu, J. S. G., & Davis, G. F. (2016). Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network. American Journal of Sociology, 122(3), 714–754. https://doi.org/10.1086/6886502

Further readings

54 more, listed in one source
  1. Bachrach, P., & Baratz, M. S. (1962). Two Faces of Power. American Political Science Review, 56(4), 947–952. https://doi.org/10.2307/1952796
  2. Lukes, S. (1974). Power: A Radical View. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02248-9
  3. Zald, M. N., & Berger, M. A. (1978). Social Movements in Organizations: Coup d'Etat, Insurgency, and Mass Movements. American Journal of Sociology, 83(4), 823–861. https://doi.org/10.1086/226634
  4. Burawoy, M. (1979). Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226217710.001.0001
  5. Palmer, D. (1983). Broken Ties: Interlocking Directorates and Intercorporate Coordination. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392384
  6. Useem, M. (1984). The Inner Circle. Oxford University Press.
  7. Snow, D. A., Rochford, E. B., join(' ', Worden, S. K., & Benford, R. D. (1986). Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation. American Sociological Review, 51(4), 464. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095581
  8. Fligstein, N. (1990). The Transformation of Corporate Control. Harvard University Press.
  9. Clemens, E. S. (1993). Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920. American Journal of Sociology, 98(4), 755–798. https://doi.org/10.1086/230089
  10. Tilly, C. (1995). Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834. Harvard University Press.
  11. Sorensen, A. B. (1996). The Structural Basis of Social Inequality. American Journal of Sociology, 101, 1333–1365.
  12. Roy, W. G. (1997). Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822270
  13. Ocasio, W., & Kim, H. (1999). The Circulation of Corporate Control: Selection of Functional Backgrounds of New CEOs in Large U.S. Manufacturing Firms, 1981–1992. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(3), 532–562. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666961
  14. Keck, M. E., & Sikkink, K. (1999). Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics. International Social Science Journal, 51(159), 89–101. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2451.00179
  15. Davis, G. F., & McAdam, D. (2000). Corporations, Classes, and Social Movements After Managerialism. Research in Organizational Behavior, 22, 193–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-3085(00)22006-6
  16. Benford, R. D., & Snow, D. A. (2000). Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 26(1), 611–639. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.611
  17. Rao, H., Morrill, C., & Zald, M. N. (2000). Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms. Research in Organizational Behavior, 22, 237–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-3085(00)22007-8
  18. Palmer, D., & Barber, B. M. (2001). Challengers, Elites, and Owning Families: A Social Class Theory of Corporate Acquisitions in the 1960s. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(1), 87–120. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667126
  19. Morrill, C., Zald, M. N., & Rao, H. (2003). Covert Political Conflict in Organizations: Challenges from Below. Annual Review of Sociology, 29(1), 391–415. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.095927
  20. Burris, V. (2005). Interlocking Directorates and Political Cohesion among Corporate Elites. American Journal of Sociology, 111(1), 249–283. https://doi.org/10.1086/428817
  21. McAdam, D., & Scott, W. R. (2005). Organizations and movements. In G. Davis, D. McAdam, R. Scott, & M. Zald (Eds.), Social Movements and Organization Theory (pp. 4–40). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791000.003
  22. Davis, G. F., & Zald, M. N. (2005). Social Change, Social Theory, and the Convergence of Movements and Organizations. In G. F. Davis, D. McAdam, W. R. Scott, & M. N. Zald (Eds.), Social Movements and Organization Theory (pp. 335–350). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791000.017
  23. Campbell, J. L. (2005). Where Do We Stand? Common mechanisms in organizations and social movement research. In G. Davis, D. McAdam, R. Scott, & M. Zald (Eds.), Social Movements and Organization Theory (pp. 41–68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791000.004
  24. Haveman, H. A., Rao, H., & Paruchuri, S. (2007). The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrift. American Sociological Review, 72(1), 117–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240707200106
  25. King, M. D., & Haveman, H. A. (2008). Antislavery in America: The Press, the Pulpit, and the Rise of Antislavery Societies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 492–528. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.492
  26. Soule, S. A., & King, B. G. (2008). Competition and Resource Partitioning in Three Social Movement Industries. American Journal of Sociology, 113(6), 1568–1610. https://doi.org/10.1086/587152
  27. Zald, M. N. (2008). Epilogue: Social Movements and Political Sociology in the Analysis of Organizations and Markets. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 568–574. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.53.3.568
  28. Schneiberg, M., King, M., & Smith, T. (2008). Social Movements and Organizational Form: Cooperative Alternatives to Corporations in the American Insurance, Dairy, and Grain Industries. American Sociological Review, 73(4), 635–667. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240807300406
  29. Domhoff, G. W. (2009). Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance. McGraw Hill Higher Education.
  30. McAdam, D., Boudet, H. S., Davis, J., Orr, R. J., Richard Scott, W., & Levitt, R. E. (2010). “Site Fights”: Explaining Opposition to Pipeline Projects in the Developing World1. Sociological Forum, 25(3), 401–427. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01189.x
  31. Rao, H., & Dutta, S. (2012). Free Spaces as Organizational Weapons of the Weak: Religious Festivals and Regimental Mutinies in the 1857 Bengal Native Army. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57(4), 625–668. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839212467744
  32. Soule, S. A. (2012). Social Movements and Markets, Industries, and Firms. Organization Studies, 33(12), 1715–1733. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612464610
  33. Soule, S. A. (2012). Targeting Organizations: Private and Contentious Politics. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 261–285). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x(2012)0000034012
  34. van Wijk, J., Stam, W., Elfring, T., Zietsma, C., & den Hond, F. (2013). Activists and Incumbents Structuring Change: The Interplay of Agency, Culture, and Networks in Field Evolution. Academy of Management Journal, 56(2), 358–386. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.0355
  35. Mizruchi, M. S. (2013). The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075368
  36. Jung, W., King, B. G., & Soule, S. A. (2014). Issue Bricolage: Explaining the Configuration of the Social Movement Sector, 1960–1995. American Journal of Sociology, 120(1), 187–225. https://doi.org/10.1086/677196
  37. Walker, E. T., & Rea, C. M. (2014). The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries. Annual Review of Sociology, 40(1), 281–304. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043215
  38. Yue, L. Q. (2015). Community Constraints on the Efficacy of Elite Mobilization: The Issuance of Currency Substitutes during the Panic of 1907. American Journal of Sociology, 120(6), 1690–1735. https://doi.org/10.1086/681714
  39. Benton, R. A. (2016). Corporate Governance and Nested Authority: Cohesive Network Structure, Actor-Driven Mechanisms, and the Balance of Power in American Corporations. American Journal of Sociology, 122(3), 661–713. https://doi.org/10.1086/689397
  40. Luo, X. R., Zhang, J., & Marquis, C. (2016). Mobilization in the Internet Age: Internet Activism and Corporate Response. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 2045–2068. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0693
  41. McDonnell, M.-H. (2016). Radical Repertoires: The Incidence and Impact of Corporate-Sponsored Social Activism. Organization Science, 27(1), 53–71. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1017
  42. Yue, L. Q. (2016). The Great and the Small: The Impact of Collective Action on the Evolution of Board Interlocks after the Panic of 1907. American Sociological Review, 81(2), 374–395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416631989
  43. Murray, J. (2017). Interlock Globally, Act Domestically: Corporate Political Unity in the 21st Century. American Journal of Sociology, 122(6), 1617–1663. https://doi.org/10.1086/691603
  44. Aydin, C. I., Ozkaynak, B., Rodríguez-Labajos, B., & Yenilmez, T. (2017). Network effects in environmental justice struggles: An investigation of conflicts between mining companies and civil society organizations from a network perspective. PLOS ONE, 12(7), e0180494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180494
  45. Dorobantu, S., Henisz, W. J., & Nartey, L. (2017). Not All Sparks Light a Fire: Stakeholder and Shareholder Reactions to Critical Events in Contested Markets. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62(3), 561–597. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839216687743
  46. Reeves, A., Friedman, S., Rahal, C., & Flemmen, M. (2017). The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016. American Sociological Review, 82(6), 1139–1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417735742
  47. Anteby, M., & Chan, C. K. (2018). A Self-Fulfilling Cycle of Coercive Surveillance: Workers’ Invisibility Practices and Managerial Justification. Organization Science, 29(2), 247–263. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1175
  48. Lamont, M. (2018). Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality. American Sociological Review, 83(3), 419–444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418773775
  49. Henisz, W. J. (2018). Business, Insular Stakeholder Relations, and Conflict. Working Paper. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.15147abstract
  50. Amengual, M. (2018). Buying stability: The distributive outcomes of private politics in the Bolivian mining industry. World Development, 104, 31–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.11.008
  51. Jerolmack, C., & Walker, E. T. (2018). Please in My Backyard: Quiet Mobilization in Support of Fracking in an Appalachian Community. American Journal of Sociology, 124(2), 479–516. https://doi.org/10.1086/698215
  52. Nartey, L. J., Henisz, W. J., & Dorobantu, S. (2018). Status Climbing vs. Bridging: Multinational Stakeholder Engagement Strategies. Strategy Science, 3(2), 367–392. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0057
  53. Odziemkowska, K., & Henisz, W. J. (2021). Webs of Influence: Secondary Stakeholder Actions and Cross-National Corporate Social Performance. Organization Science, 32(1), 233–255. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1380
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