The Economics of Movement Success: Business Responses to Civil Rights Mobilization1

By Joseph E. Luders. American Journal of Sociology, 2006

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Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Collective Action—and Then What? (2009, background): “Focusing on Southern businesses’ responses to civil rights activism, Luders (2006) notes several instances of rapid capitulation to collective action.”
A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, background): “…way some SMOs may play on the nature of competition within an industry (Schurman, 2004), on the relations of power and dependence between the actors of a supply chain (Gereffi & Korzeniewicz, 1994) or on potential responses from competitors (Luders, 2006) in order to influence corporate policies.”
Social Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protests on Stock Price Returns (2007, background): “Social movement scholars have long argued that the disruptive qualities of protest are costly to its target (see Piven and Cloward, 1977; McAdam, 1982; Kennan, 1986; Gamson, 1990; McAdam and Su, 2002; Luders, 2006; Rojas, 2006).”
Keeping up Appearances (2013, background): “Yet, research on the outcomes of social movements has largely ignored the performance aspects of strategic interaction with movements’ targets, instead focusing only on direct responses such as wins or losses, resistance or concession (Schurman, 2004; Luders, 2006; King, 2008).”
Not All Sparks Light a Fire: Stakeholder and Shareholder Reactions to Critical Events in Contested Markets (2017, background): “Prior research has examined the impact of different types of critical events, including consumer boycotts (Luders, 2006; King, 2008), protests (King and Soule, 2007; Soule, Swaminathan, and Tihanyi, 2014), and activist campaigns (Eesley and Lenox, 2006; Bartley and Child, 2011).”
Tilting at Windmills? The Environmental Movement and the Emergence of the U.S. Wind Energy Sector (2009, background): “Some work bridging social movements and markets has focused on businesses as targets of social movements (Van Dyke, Soule, and Taylor, 2004; Luders, 2006; King and Soule, 2007).”