Differential Firm Commitment to Industries Supported by Social Movement Organizations

The authors are grateful to Brayden King and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. They also thank Glen Dowell, Eric Brousseau, Bertrant Quelin, Yannis Ioannou, Susan Kayser Daniel Waeger, Georg Wernicke, Thomas Roulet, and Estefania Amer for their feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. Participants at the 2013 Academy of Management conference, the 2016 Strategic Management Society conference, and the Society and Organizations (SnO) Research Center at HEC Paris provided helpful comments. Finally, the authors thank Romain Boulogne, Bob Cavents, Elena Fumagali, Cedric Gutierrez Moreno, and Natalie Sophia Pilling for their excellent research assistance. This paper is based on the second author’s doctoral dissertation, “From opposition to support: The influence of social movement organizations on firm strategy,” which received financial support from the SnO Research Center, the GDF Suez–HEC Paris Chair, the HEC Paris Leadership Center, and the Strategy Research Foundation Dissertation Research Program. The authors are listed in alphabetical order.