DIFFUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

By D. Strang, S. Soule. 1998

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The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performance (2018, background): “Further, a rich history across political science, economics, marketing, and sociology research provides empirical evidence that pronounced displays of confidence, optimism, and hope facilitate similar beliefs and expectations in an audience (e.g., Olson, 2006; Strang and Soule, 1998).”
State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development (2016, background): “…research has documented the importance of trait-based imitation of actors perceived as being leaders, high performers, more prestigious, or more legitimate (Haveman, 1993; Rogers, 1995; Haunschild and Miner, 1997; Strang and Soule, 1998; Rao, Monin, and Durand, 2005; Lieberman and Asaba, 2006).”
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, unknown): “The critique of Strang and colleagues (Strang and Meyer, 1993; Strang and Soule, 1998) on Roger’s framework seems to address many shortcomings of its application in LICs.”
The role of institutional and reputational factors in the voluntary adoption of corporate social responsibility reporting standards (2011, background): “Strang and Soule (1998) point at the mass media as an external source of diffusion, which speeds the adoption process by corporations.”
When the birds sing. A framework for analysing domestic factors behind policy convergence (2005, unknown): “Some authors emphasize cultural similarity (Strang and Meyer 1993; Strang and Soule 1998), others point to administrative traditions and capacities (Kern et al. 1999) as signiﬁcant domestic framework conditions.”
Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence (2012, unknown): “Such processes play a fundamental role in settings that include the spread of technological innovations [Rogers 1995; Strang and Soule 1998], This research was supported in part by the Albert Yu and Mary Benchmann Foundation, IBM, Lightspeed, Microsoft, Yahoo, grants ONR N00014-09-1-1044, NSF…”
Of Dominoes and Firewalls: The Domestic, Regional, and Global Politics of International Diffusion (2012, background): “For overviews of causal mechanisms in diffusion, see Ross and Homer (1976), Strang and Soule (1998), Johnston (2001), Elkins and Simmons (2005), Brooks (2005) and Weyland (2007).”
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, background): “Studies of diffusion across individuals, organizations, and social movements have a venerable tradition in sociology (Coleman et al. 1966b, Davis et al. 1994, Dobbin 1994, Dobbin & Dowd 2000, Edelman 1992, Hagerstrand 1967, Rogers 1995, Strang & Meyer 1993, Strang & Soule 1998).”
Innovators and imitators: Organizational reference groups and adoption of organizational routines (2005, background): “Institutional theory argues that imitation of organizational structures and procedures is driven by norms of rationality (Meyer and Rowan, 1977) and uncertainty (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983, and that differences in social proximity to the innovators explain the order of adoption (Strang and Soule, 199”