Social Activism in and Around Organizations

Disentangling the effects of hedge fund activism on firm financial and social performance

“…In a second strand of literature, management scholars examining the impact of shareholder activism have found that activists can positively impact firms' CSP (Eesley, Decelles, & Lenox, ). However, since management researchers have focused primarily on social activism (Briscoe & Gupta, ), shareholder proposals, and requests for change (Agrawal, ; Clark & Crawford, ; David, Bloom, & Hillman, ; Neubaum & Zahra, ; Perrault & Clark, ; Rehbein, Logsdon, & Van Buren, ; Reid & Toffel, ), little is known about whether and how firms' CSP changes after activist hedge funds acquire ownership stakes in targeted firms. Calling for more research, Ahn and Wiersema (in‐press) conclude, “management scholars have largely neglected to investigate the influence that activist hedge funds have on companies, thus ignoring an important constituent that is driving corporate strategy and governance.”…”

Access Inequalities in the Artistic Labour Market in the UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Precariousness, Entrepreneurialism and Voluntarism

“…This study has employed critical discourse analysis to evaluate the dominant discourses of volunteerism and entrepreneurship, which are associated with the government and social enterprise, in contrast to the counter‐discourse of precarity advocated by social activists. While the previous literature has identified the link between social movement activism and social enterprises (Akemu et al ., ; Briscoe and Gupta, ), this paper demonstrates the ways in which the government, social activists and social enterprises interact by developing contrasting discourses and positions in the artistic field in order to tackle access inequalities. By analysing these contrasting discourses chronologically, this study has identified a shift from a business‐oriented discourse before the crisis to a stakeholder‐driven discourse of social enterprises afterwards, while exposing precariousness as a counter‐discourse that exposes inequalities and demands corrective actions for both arts organisations and the government.…”

The effects of CEO activism on employees person‐organization ideological misfit: A conceptual model and research agenda

“…In this case, it is possible that some employees will choose to directly counter the CEO's activism with their own form of activism. Based on previous literature concerning social activism (Briscoe & Gupta, 2016;King & Soule, 2007), we define employee activism as an individual employee, or group of employees, who lacks full access to official channels of influence, and thus engages in collective action to remedy a perceived wrong within the organization.…”