Introduction: the wind energy industry and the environmental movement -- The big picture -- Environmental campaigns and the adoption and implementation of feed-in tariffs -- Environmental campaigns and the adoption and implementation of renewable portfolio standards -- From thinking globally...

Do social movement organizations increase the supply of a public good? We address this question by investigating the role of generalist social movement organizations and technology-focused organizations for the development of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in California from...

Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This...

Comparative organizational analysis once dominated American organizational sociology, grounded in rich case studies about organizational processes and outcomes. The Columbia school's approach to organizational research was exemplary in this regard. Following the publication of Robert K. Merton's...

The borrowing and application of concepts and theories from underlying disciplines, such as psychology and sociology, is commonplace in organization theory. This article critically reviews this practice in organizational research. It discusses the borrowing of theoretical perspectives across...

This article explores the mechanisms by which corporate prestige produces distorted legaloutcomes. Drawing on social psychological theories of status, we suggest that prestigeinfluences audience evaluations by shaping expectations, and that its effect will differdepending on whether a firm's...

While much of economic sociology focuses on the stabilizing aspects of markets, the social movement perspective emphasizes the role that contentiousness plays in bringing institutional change and innovation to markets. Markets are inherently political, both because of their ties to the...