Organizational Environments, Framing Processes, and the Diffusion of the Program to Address Global Climate Change Among Local Governments in the United States |
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Authors: | Ion Bogdan Vasi |
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Institution: | (1) School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1407 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street, New York, 10027, USA |
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Abstract: | Few researchers have examined how organizational environments and framing processes simultaneously influence the diffusion of organizational practices. This article combines insight from major perspectives on the diffusion of organizational innovations and from social movement studies, and shows that the adoption of a program to address global climate change by U.S. municipalities is shaped by social contagion and organizational linkages, as well as by the actions of change-promoting agents. The findings emphasize the potential as well as the limitation of the strategic efforts on the part of innovation promoters to frame adoption in a way that will appeal to potential adopters. |
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Keywords: | diffusion of innovations organizational framing frame alignment local governments global climate change |
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