The Contentiousness of Markets: Politics, Social Movements, and Institutional Change in Markets

By Brayden G. King, Nicholas Pearce. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing (2016, unknown): “Most prior studies have examined the effects of speech on action in settings where there are strong institutions protecting those seeking to engage in collective action and where the ability to speak up is taken for granted (King and Pearce, 2010).”
A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, background): “…to pay attention to the diversity of strategies used by social movements to put pressure on companies (King, 2007, 2008; King & Soule, 2007), and have spawned an abundant literature on the combined perspectives of social movement studies and market organization studies (King & Pearce, 2010).”
A new perspective on market dynamics (2014, background): “Also, the literature on social movements (King and Pearce, 2010) proposes that the disruptive motives (often associated with charismatic leadership) destabilize dominant market forms, ideologies, and/or practices.”
Sharing and Shaping: A Cross-Country Comparison of How Sharing Economy Firms Shape Their Institutional Environment to Gain Legitimacy (2018, unknown): “…institutional strategies have been studied under non-market or corporate political strategies (Baron, 1995; Hillman & Hitt, 1999; Hillman, Keim, & Schuler, 2004), collective action (King & Pearce, 2010; Walker & Rea, 2014), and stakeholder management (Freeman, 1984; Mitchell, Agle, & Wood, 1997).”
Social entrepreneurship: Creating value in the context of institutional complexity (2017, background): “However, work on social movement and paradox theories transcends institutional determinism (Czech, 2014; Glynn, 2008; King & Pearce, 2010; Rao & Giorgi, 2006; Rao, Morrill, & Zald, 2000; Schneiberg & Lounsbury, 2008).”
Social Movements as Catalysts for Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism and the Adoption of Green Information Systems (2019, unknown): “First, recent efforts to bridge institutional theory and research on social movements have developed a view of organizational fields as contested spaces in which a range of different actors negotiate social order (Fligstein & McAdam, 2012; King & Pearce, 2010; Schneiberg & Lounsbury, 2008).”
Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “25 Beyond that, ﬁrms are subject to activist and social movement pressure (King & Pearce, 2010).”
Keeping up Appearances (2013, background): “While much social movement research focuses on the material effects of movements’ tactics, the symbolic effects may be even more real and significant, especially when one considers movements’ influence over markets (King and Pearce, 2010), which are inherently grounded in symbolic understandings abo”
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets (2015, background): “For example, where institutions are missing or inadequate, firms frequently utilize strategies such as collective action (King & Pearce, 2010; Walker and Rea, 2014) and defining global or industry standards (Bartley, 2007) to address such challenges.”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “…not least by the changing strategies of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), faith groups, student organizations, and human rights activists, whose arenas for political struggle have shifted from the state to the private sector (den Hond & de Bakker, 2007; King & Pearce, 2010; Soule, 1997).”
An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “It is increasingly recognized that markets and other forms of organizational activity are contested (Lounsbury, 2001; Levy, 2008a; King and Pearce, 2010).”
Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms (2013, unknown): “Protests increase both audience involvement and the protester groups’ influence by denigrating particular practices and convincing others of the need for change (King & Pearce, 2010).”