Triadic Advocacy Work

This paper benefited greatly from the insightful feedback of Lotte Bailyn, Jenna Myers, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, Ray Reagans, Cat Turco, Wanda Orlikowski, Tom Kochan, Robert McKersie, and Michael Piore. The authors are also grateful for the comments from audience and seminar participants in the MIT Sloan Economic Sociology Working Group, East Coast Doctoral Conference, Wharton Society for the Advancement of Women in Business Academia, Academy of Managment 2018, and the 2017 Organization Studies Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research-Weatherhead paper development workshop. The authors are indebted to Ruthanne Huising and three anonymous reviewers for realizing the potential of this work. This study would not have been possible without the generous support of the public defenders who gave their time and thoughts and from whom the authors learned so much. Thank you.