"Movements, Markets, &amp; the Power of Living Stories"

Leitzinger, Jocelyn M.; Navis, Chad; Waldron, Theodore L.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2016.293

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“…As a result, a movement's overarching goal may initially necessitate the pursuit of alternative subgoals that offer more paths to success. For example, Leitzinger et al (2016) found that a campaign to alter lumber harvesting practices in old growth forests aimed directly at forestry companies was ineffective due to targets that had limited stakeholders and were unwilling to change operational practices core to their business models. As a result, activists first targeted firms at the other end of the lumber products value chain, seeking to eliminate the market for old growth forest products as a means of pressuring the forestry industry to change its practices.…”

Section: Goal Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: A goals-based approach to studying social movements in markets

Leitzinger

Waeger

2023

Organization Theory

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Prior research on social movements and markets has thus far paid only scant attention to movement goals. In the few instances that goals are considered, the focus is on how goals provide a shared purpose to movement participants, and not on their substantive nature or ‘content’. In contrast, our review of the movements and markets literature suggests that the substantive nature of movement goals is critical because it provides a more comprehensive understanding of different market-based movements and their interactions with market actors – ultimately impacting the consequences for movements and their targets. We develop a social movement typology using a goals-based perspective to distinguish between three types of movement: alteration movements, whose goal is to alter or change the practices of markets or their actors; creation movements whose goal is to create new market categories as a means of addressing their grievances; and elimination movements whose goal is to eradicate or remove products, industries, or markets altogether. We propose that the relationship between these types of movement and market actors goes through a four-stage life cycle – emergence, action, interaction and settlement – and that initial variation in movement goals shapes differences in the movement–market relationship at each stage of this life cycle.

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Section: Goal Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%