Organizations Driving Positive Social Change

Organizations driving positive social change: a review and an integrative framework of change

SUSTAINING CHANGE in ORGANIZATIONS

Address Terms in China: Social Change as a Driving Force for Language Change

Social Change, Social Theory, and the Convergence of Movements and Organizations

The essays in this volume have brought together two fields of inquiry, the study of social movements and the study of organizations, that have shown substantial convergence in core concepts and modes of analysis (McAdam and Scott, Chap. 1; Campbell, Chap. 2). Social movements are often represented by formal organizations, and organizations respond to social movements and have movement-like proc...

Democratizing Data Science Effecting positive social change with data science

The effective translation of data into novel insights, discoveries, and solutions, also known as data science, has enormous potential to bring about positive social change. In this paper, we propose ways to “democratize data science”: that is, to allocate the power of data science to society’s greatest needs. Two underlying challenges are 1) the misalignment of economic incentives to aspiring d...