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The Collective Action of Large Corporations in Response to Social Movement Protest.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Collective Action of Large Corporations in Response to Social Movement Protest./
Author:	Banerjee, Tarun David.
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781339057798

The Collective Action of Large Corporations in Response to Social Movement Protest.
Banerjee, Tarun David.

The Collective Action of Large Corporations in Response to Social Movement Protest. - 1 online resource (212 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references

This project addresses an important but understudied question of social movement and organizational research: do corporations develop response strategies to protests individually or collectively with other firms? If they do so collectively, does this indicate firms have a class-based interest or more limited industry interest? I address these questions through a statistical examination of protests against U.S. Fortune 500 firms over 6 years (2005-2010). I test the effect of a firm's embeddedness in corporate networks on its responses to protest. I find that 1) firms more embedded in class-wide networks are more hostile to protest. However, 2) this is moderated by the broader economic environment and the ideology of connected groups. Next, 3) corporate networks help unify the responses of connected firms and serve as a channel for communication between targeted firms. Finally, 4) industry networks have minimal influence on firm behavior, suggesting the responses of targeted corporations are indicative of a broad class-based collective interest. These results show that the responses of targeted firms are shaped in historically situated and ideologically identifiable ways. Consequently, this dissertation confirms the much hypothesized---but rarely documented---propensity of corporations to act collectively in response to social movements.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781339057798Subjects--Topical Terms:

551705
Sociology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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