This study seeks to understand the recent emergence of new organizational forms for social enterprise in relation to established corporations' seemingly contradictory actions: increased engagement in corporate social responsibility, coupled with persistent practices overtly geared towards profit...

This paper examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of pre-existing but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to the climate change debate in the U.S. and the efforts of Bill McKibben and...

We study how firms use environmental and social (ES) disclosures in proxy statements to persuade shareholders to vote in their favor on ES proposals. These proposals are gaining public attention and support from shareholders as activists push firms to improve their ES performance. However,...