A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges
A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges
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私人政治的动态过程模型：激进分子的目标和企业对社会挑战的接受能力
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10.2139/ssrn.2432208
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发表时间：
2015
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S. Soule
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作者：
M. McDonnell;Brayden G. King;S. Soule
这个项目探讨了随着时间的推移，企业是否以及如何变得更容易接受社会活动家的挑战。根据社会运动理论，我们提出了一个动态过程，通过这个过程，有争议的互动会导致接受度的增加。我们认为，当企业长期成为社会活动家的目标时，它们会采取防御性的战略管理手段，帮助它们更好地管理社会问题，并证明其规范性的适当性。这些防御手段具有授权独立监督者和增加公司问责制的附带效果，这反过来又增加了公司对未来激进分子挑战的接受度。我们使用一个独特的纵向数据集来测试我们的理论，该数据集追踪了1993年至2009年间300家大公司中有争议的攻击和社会管理设备的采用。
This project explores whether and how corporations become more receptive to social activist challenges over time. Drawing from social movement theory, we suggest a dynamic process through which contentious interactions lead to increased receptivity. We argue that when firms are chronically targeted by social activists, they respond defensively by adopting strategic management devices that help them better manage social issues and demonstrate their normative appropriateness. These defensive devices have the incidental effect of empowering independent monitors and increasing corporate accountability, which in turn increases a firm's receptivity to future activist challenges. We test our theory using a unique longitudinal dataset that tracks contentious attacks and the adoption of social management devices among a population of 300 large firms from 1993-2009.