In nascent industries―whose new technologies are often poorly understood by regulators―
contending with regulatory uncertainty can be crucial to organizational survival and growth …

Organizations are frequent targets for social activists aiming to influence society by first
altering organizational policies and practices. Reflecting a steady rise in research on this …

More than a decade ago, Thornton and colleagues added community to the inter-
institutional system and argued that the community logic shapes individual and …

This paper explores whether and how social activists' challenges affect politicians'
willingness to associate with targeted firms. We study the effect of public protest on corporate …

Research summary: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and subsequent
developments created a covert channel for firms to allocate resources from corporate …

Corporate activism is a growing practice whereby companies take a stand on a social,
political, or environmental issue, usually controversial, to contribute to social change. This …

Corporate chief executive officers (CEOs) have occupied important positions of power in
developed societies since the nineteenth century. In this article, we describe how the nature …

Calls for reintroducing agency, politics and contestation into institutional analysis are now
legion, spanning more than two decades since DiMaggio's (1988) classic piece, and gaining …

This article explores when and why firms participate in overt corporate-sponsored social
activism. To shed light on this question, I empirically explore the emergence and …

Scandals are momentous events with far-reaching consequences for organizations and
society, but we still know relatively little about the contextual conditions that enable them. In …