Vox Populi: Resource Partitioning, Organizational Proliferation, and the Cultural Impact of the Insurgent Microradio Movement

Oppositional Identities and Resource Partitioning: Distillery Ownership in Scotch Whisky, 1826–2009

“…For instance, Carroll and Swaminathan (2000) highlight the oppositional code of "microbrewer"-one that excluded mass brewers and thereby protected the niche of the microbrewers (see also Swaminathan 2001;Greve, Pozner, and Rao 2006;Pozner and Rao 2006). Scotch-whisky production provides a compelling context to study the role of identity in resource partitioning.…”

Paradise Sold: Resource Partitioning and the Organic Movement in the US Farming Industry

“…Movements are inherently dynamic phenomena, unfolding in stages: they emerge, grow, and eventually decline. Resource partitioning theorists reason that social and identity movements enhance specialists' viability by increasing the dimensionality of the resource space and by creating resource pockets for specialists to exploit (e.g., Carroll & Swaminathan, 2000;Greve, Pozner, & Rao, 2006;Soule & King, 2008). In the micro-brewing and micro-radio cases, for example, strong identity movements are found to be important drivers of partitioning and are identified as successful triggers of specialist proliferation.…”

“…We juxtapose the microbrew, micro-radio, and organic farming movements and seek to understand the similarities and differences between the three. We adopt a longitudinal view using "thick" qualitative data to reconstruct the organic farming movement as a historical case study, and engage in what Ragin (1994) termed "reciprocal clarification," using extant research on the micro-radio and micro-brew movements (Carroll & Swaminathan, 2000;Greve et al, 2006) to identify the key mechanisms that drive partitioning. We then compare and reconcile the similarities and differences between the mechanisms underlying previously studied movements and those underpinning the organic farming movement as it unfolded.…”

The comparative analysis of organizational forms: Considering field and ecological approaches

“…The emerging conversation between these approaches can be furthered and be taken beyond the selective appropriation of certain ideas and concepts from the ''production'' paradigm on the part of organizational scholars (e.g., Greve, Pozner, & Rao, 2006). In addition, we can begin to use the insights from field and production perspectives to inform the sophisticated framework for the analysis of social forms recently systematized by ecological theorists (e.g., Hannan et al, 2007).…”