Collective Action in Organizations

by Andrew Flanagin, Bruce Bimber, Cynthia Stohl

Book Overview

Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The American Legion, AARP, and MoveOn - the authors reconceptualize collective action as a phenomenon in which technology enhances people's ability to cross boundaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521191726
• ISBN13: 9780521191722
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"