Session Information
AOM 2009 Annual Meeting
Social Movements
Track
:
August 11, 2009
Program Code:
1370
Date:
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Time:
9:45 AM to 11:15 AM
EST
Location:
HRC - Columbian
CHAIR
:
Chris Marquis, Harvard U.
DISCUSSANT
:
Mark Thomas Kennedy, U. of Southern California
SPEAKER
(S):
Robin Church
Sean Safford
Description
Agenda/Outline:
OMT: Pride at Work: Social Movements, Field Dynamics, and Organizational and Institutional Change
Author: You-Ta Chuang; York U.;
Author: Robin Church; Ryerson U.;
Author: Kristina Dahlin; HEC Paris;
In this study, we build upon past research on social movements to examine organizational and institutional change. Our theoretical and empirical analysis of the adoption of same-sex partner health benefits by Fortune 500 corporations, 1990-2003 shows that a corporation's employee resource group (ERG), organization of GLBT advocacy organizations, and framing activities in organizational fields exerted great influence on the rate of benefits adoption by the corporation. However, as the number of benefits adoption by corporations increased, the differential adoption rates between corporations with ERGs and those without decreased. Accordingly, our study contributes to the emerging literature on movements and organizations by simultaneously examining the effects of movements internal and external organizations and field dynamics on organizational and institutional change.
Search Terms: institutional change, social movements
OMT: Taking Stock on Social Movement Perspectives: What do We Know? Where do We Go?
Author: Yuan Li; U. of Southern California;
Studies of social movements and organizations deal with two different domains of collective action. However, there are some overlaps and parallel development in terms of both the nature of the phenomena and theoretical insights between social movement studies and organizational research. As more organizational research has started to incorporate insights from social movement studies, it is eminent to reflect on what distinctive contributions social movement perspectives can bring to organizational theorizing. This article traces the historical evolution of theories of social movements, and discusses how social movement studies may contribute to organizational theory and research.
Search Terms: social movement, organization, theory
OMT: From Social Movement to Settlement: Three Phases of the Institutionalization Process
Author: Sean Safford; U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business;
Author: Forrest Briscoe; Pennsylvania State U.;
The institutional diffusion of a new practice across an organizational field is closely tied to how organizational decision makers resolve their uncertainties about the practice. We unpack this linkage by examining the different types of ambiguities which need resolution in order for organizational adoption to proceed at different points in time. The resulting model helps connect early changes linked to social movement advocacy with later mimetic isomorphism in the wider diffusion process. We illustrate our basic argument using multi-method data on the adoption of domestic partner benefits in the Fortune 500 from 1990 to 2005. We show how each of three different inter-organizational networks played a dominant role during one of the phases of institutionalization, reflecting the way in which information from that network addressed a relevant form of uncertainty characterizing that phase of the process.
Search Terms: Institutionalization, Social movements, Employment practices
OMT: Pride at Work: Social Movements, Field Dynamics, and Organizational and Institutional Change
Author: You-Ta Chuang; York U.;
Author: Robin Church; Ryerson U.;
Author: Kristina Dahlin; HEC Paris;
In this study, we build upon past research on social movements to examine organizational and institutional change. Our theoretical and empirical analysis of the adoption of same-sex partner health benefits by Fortune 500 corporations, 1990-2003 shows that a corporation's employee resource group (ERG), organization of GLBT advocacy organizations, and framing activities in organizational fields exerted great influence on the rate of benefits adoption by the corporation. However, as the number of benefits adoption by corporations increased, the differential adoption rates between corporations with ERGs and those without decreased. Accordingly, our study contributes to the emerging literature on movements and organizations by simultaneously examining the effects of movements internal and external organizations and field dynamics on organizational and institutional change.
Search Terms: institutional change, social movements
OMT: Taking Stock on Social Movement Perspectives: What do We Know? Where do We Go?
Author: Yuan Li; U. of Southern California;
Studies of social movements and organizations deal with two different domains of collective action. However, there are some overlaps and parallel development in terms of both the nature of the phenomena and theoretical insights between social movement studies and organizational research. As more organizational research has started to incorporate insights from social movement studies, it is eminent to reflect on what distinctive contributions social movement perspectives can bring to organizational theorizing. This article traces the historical evolution of theories of social movements, and discusses how social movement studies may contribute to organizational theory and research.
Search Terms: social movement, organization, theory
OMT: From Social Movement to Settlement: Three Phases of the Institutionalization Process
Author: Sean Safford; U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business;
Author: Forrest Briscoe; Pennsylvania State U.;
The institutional diffusion of a new practice across an organizational field is closely tied to how organizational decision makers resolve their uncertainties about the practice. We unpack this linkage by examining the different types of ambiguities which need resolution in order for organizational adoption to proceed at different points in time. The resulting model helps connect early changes linked to social movement advocacy with later mimetic isomorphism in the wider diffusion process. We illustrate our basic argument using multi-method data on the adoption of domestic partner benefits in the Fortune 500 from 1990 to 2005. We show how each of three different inter-organizational networks played a dominant role during one of the phases of institutionalization, reflecting the way in which information from that network addressed a relevant form of uncertainty characterizing that phase of the process.
Search Terms: Institutionalization, Social movements, Employment practices
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