Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-market Strategy

This volume brings together new research that bridges the domains of stakeholder theory, non-market strategy and social movement theory. Although these three research domains have developed via relatively distinct academic communities, they speak to a common set of phenomena at the intersection of business, markets, civil society, and the state. This collection sets an agenda for a more holistic theory of business and society – a theory that takes seriously the various kinds of stakeholders that make up society and have claims over business, that incorporates the goals and objectives of businesses to survive and thrive, and that places an important role on the process of mobilization and contentious interaction between actors whose goals inherently conflict.

Forrest Briscoe is Professor of Management and Organization, and Frank & Mary Jean Smeal Research Fellow, in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has published widely in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Strategic Management Journal. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Administrative Science Quarterly.