In the 2015 European refugee crisis, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
offered help and actively advocated for millions of refugees. The current study aims to …

In recent years, a new trend has emerged in which shareholder activists have formed
networks to empower shareholders and magnify shareholder voices. This study explores the …

Extant research on policy networks tends to focus on explaining successes and/or failures of
particular policy efforts. One commonly used theoretical framework–the Advocacy Coalition …

In 1993 over 850 people were arrested for engaging in civil disobedience to prevent the
clear-cut logging of pristine ancient temperate rainforests in Clayoquot Sound, Canada. This …

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), like most strategic communicators, are challenged
with breaking through the saturated international media environment as they attempt to …

This paper examines conflicts that occur between mining companies and civil society
organizations (CSOs) around the world and offers an innovative analysis of mining conflicts …

This paper utilizes a mixture of qualitative, formal, and statistical socio-semantic network
analyses to examine how cultural homophily works when field logic meets practice. On the …

Utilizing the# MeToo movement as its case, this article examines celebrities' symbolic power
using social media's connectivity to enlarge the impact of social causes. This article adopts …

This article addresses the puzzling relational void in the analysis of collective action
consequences by exploring how protest waves affect local network structures in two German …

Social networks are an integral part of social movement mobilization, and an important
predictor of whether an individual joins a social movement organization (SMO), participates …