Social Movements and Institutional Selectivity

modernity and social movements

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Long-Term Institutional Investors and social

the investment horizons of institutional investors can affect monitoring incentives which might ultimately make an impact on firm CSR decisions. Hence, this paper investigates the effects of institutional investor’s investment horizons on CSR activities.This research has been carried out using annual data of companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period of 2011-2018. By screenin...

Social Capital and Institutional Legitimacy:

Institutional Trading During Extreme Market Movements

We investigate the trading of mutual funds and pension plan sponsors on days of extreme market-wide price movements. We find that the institutions in our sample are net buyers (sellers) during extreme market declines (increases) and that these positions generate positive returns. Results are driven by institutions that were recently trading in the same direction as they are observed trading dur...

Institutional Variation in the Evolution of Social Movements: the Spread of Recycling Advocacy Groups

Drawing on ideas from the literatures on organizations and social movements, I study how a shift in logics created changes in the causal drivers of state-level recycling advocacy group creation in the U.S. Specifically, I show that the formation of early state recycling advocacy groups was enabled by state-level conditions that were favorable to ecological activism. These early organizations we...