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Socio-Economic Review 1:71-104 (2003)
© 2003 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural–political perspective on US recycling

Michael Lounsbury1, Marc Ventresca2 and Paul M. Hirsch2

1 School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca and
2 Kellogg School of Management and Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. We build on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social structures of meanings and resources that underpin and stabilize practices and social organization. Drawing on the case of how non-profit recyclers and the recycling social movement enabled the rise of a for-profit recycling industry, we show that movements can help to transform extant socio-economic practices and enable new kinds of industry development by engaging in efforts that lead to the de-institutionalization of field frames.

Key Words: Social movements, institutions, field, framing, socio-economic change, recycling • JEL classification: O10 economic development general, Q2 renewable resources and conservation, environmental management


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