Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–1995

Wang, Dan J.; Soule, Sarah A.

doi:10.1086/664685

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“…The latter involve estimating the full approval model, then calculating an inverse Mills ratio for each patent application showing its predicted probability of being granted, and including this ratio in subsequent count models of impact. Greene (1994) has shown that such a procedure yields unbiased and efficient estimates of coefficients in the second stage (see Wang & Soule (2012) for a recent application), and other innovation research has used the same procedure to model other kinds of selection bias (Fleming, Mingo & Chen 2007). Additionally, using the inverse Mills ratio within a second-stage model allows us to treat the models controlling and not controlling for sample selection as nested, which makes their coefficients directly comparable.…”

Section: Modeling Strategymentioning

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Risky recombinations: Institutional gatekeeping in the innovation process

Ferguson¹,

Carnabuci²

2016

Preprint

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Theories of innovation and technical change posit that inventions that combine knowledge across technology domains have greater impact than inventions drawn from a single domain. The evidence for this claim comes mostly from research on patented inventions and ignores failed patent applications. We draw on insights from research into institutional gatekeeping to theorize that, to be granted, patent applications that span technological domains must have higher quality than otherwise-comparable, narrower applications. Using data on failed and successful patent applications, we estimate an integrated, two-stage model that accounts for this differential selection. We find that more domain-spanning patent applications are less likely to be approved, and that controlling for this differential selection reduces the estimated effect of knowledge recombination on innovative impact by about half. By conceptualizing the patentapproval process as a form of institutional gatekeeping, this paper highlights the institutional underpinnings of and constraints on the innovation process.

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Section: Modeling Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Risky recombinations: Institutional gatekeeping in the innovation process

Ferguson¹,

Carnabuci²

2016

Preprint

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“…In instrumental terms, membership of the Platform has enabled organizations to acquire expertise on and access to EU social policy-making processes and is supported by the secretariat and members through a formal organizational goal of creating a cohesive EU social NGO sector. Collaboration between SMOs facilitates the transfer of knowledge between organizations, the acquisition of new expertise, and the diffusion of tactics (Wang & Soule, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

European Union Non-governmental Organizational Coalitions as Professional Social Movement Communities

Cullen

2015

Journal of Civil Society

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Previous analysis has looked at the interface between organized civil society (OCS) and European Union (EU) institutions and has posed questions about their role as political communicators for the EU project, and consequently their independence, representativeness, and policy influence. While these accounts focus in part on the role of European OCS in helping the EU institutions in the process of identity building, this work differs in offering an account of the internal processes that build identification and community within EU OCS coalitions. These dynamics are examined using social movement theory on coalitions and communities applied to a diverse coalition of OCS working on a range of social change issues at EU level known as the Platform of European Social NGOs (the Platform). Aside from a broad ideological alignment based on support for a stronger social policy at EU level, the composition of the Platform remains diverse. While diverse organizations can cooperate effectively in loose episodic and strategic alliances, the continuity in and density of collaboration within this coalition are notable. In the process of coalition work Platform members are influenced by external frames that circulate at EU level; they are also involved in a process of community building that has emerged between organizations grappling together to develop a shared understanding of an issue and an agreement around its strategic communication. Through an analysis of coalition structures and outputs, this article contributes to debates on transnational OCS coalitions by exploring the conditions for continuity, survival, and the generative properties of coalitions which move transnational civil society actors beyond purely ad hoc and instrumental, coordinated action to more durable identity-based forms of collaboration.

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“…A substantial body of research examines diffusion, or the tendency for ideas, beliefs, and behaviors to spread through human social networks (e.g., Centola, 2010Centola, , 2011Coleman et al, 1966;Montanari and Saberi, 2010;Rogers, 2003;Wang and Soule, 2012). What is common to all of these contagions is the transfer of information between individuals; in order for someone to adopt a new behavior they must learn that it exists, what it is, and how to perform it.…”

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Error correction mechanisms in social networks can reduce accuracy and encourage innovation

Brashears

Gladstone

2016

Social Networks

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a b s t r a c tHumans make mistakes but diffusion through social networks is typically modeled as though they do not. We find in an experiment that high entropy message formats (text messaging pidgin) are more prone to error than lower entropy formats (standard English). We also find that efforts to correct mistakes are effective, but generate more mutant forms of the contagion than would result from a lack of correction. This indicates that the ability of messages to cross "small-world" human social networks may be overestimated and that failed error corrections create new versions of a contagion that diffuse in competition with the original.

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Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960–1995

Cited by 210 publications

References 79 publications

Risky recombinations: Institutional gatekeeping in the innovation process

Risky recombinations: Institutional gatekeeping in the innovation process

European Union Non-governmental Organizational Coalitions as Professional Social Movement Communities

Error correction mechanisms in social networks can reduce accuracy and encourage innovation

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