Conference proceeding
Inertia Busters: Social Movement Influence on Impervious Incumbents facing Environmental Turbulence
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2019(1), pp.935-938
08/01/2019
DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.166
Abstract
Environmental change pressures incumbent organizations to decide when to adapt and exit from investments in a declining technology. As the alternatives become more economically feasible, companies will vary in how responsive they are to the shifting competitive circumstances. We investigate how contentious activism can prod recalcitrant companies to hasten their exit. This mechanism helps to account for movement influence on targets that are otherwise impervious to activism. It also broadens research on incumbent adaptation and strategic change to consider external stakeholders that accelerate rather than delay change. We find support for our theory from an analysis of coal plant retirements in the U.S. from 2008-2015
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Inertia Busters: Social Movement Influence on Impervious Incumbents facing Environmental Turbulence
- Creators
- Todd Schifeling - Fox School of Business, Temple U.Thomas Peyton Lyon - U, of MichiganIon B. Vasi - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2019(1), pp.935-938
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.166
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Management and Entrepreneurship ; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984306238102771
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