Since the 1960s, new Information Systems (IS) have been routinely associated with a "magic bullet" capacity for resolving coordination and cooperation problems. A coordination problem refers to the difficulty in creating expectations of mutuality about the enactment of information, identities...

Social movement researchers have been interested in how forms of collective action advance social change. This entry presents four main traditions of how social movements aim to achieve their mission, namely by mobilizing resources, taking advantage of political opportunities, framing issues in...

The financial crisis has exposed a behavioral paradox: although asset managers are putting significant effort into meeting institutional pressures to demonstrate transparency and responsible behavior, their actual investment behaviors seem to remain inconsistent with responsible ownership. We...