TY  - CHAP
AB  - This paper examines whether affiliation strategies used by social movement organizations to establish institutional linkages assure survival. Several streams within both social movement and organization theories suggest contrasting expectations. Two core research questions are proposed: how does strategic affiliation, as well as increasing legitimation, alter social movement organizations’ longevity, and how does the evolution of the movement condition these dynamics? Our answer focuses on the self-help/mutual-aid movement and the institutionalization of national self-help/mutual-aid organizations. Analyses comparing economic, political and symbolic means of survival at the population-of-organizations level and organizational level, and across the history of the movement, show that professional and political alliances and legitimation impact the longevity of self-help/mutual-aid organizations in unexpected ways. For instance, as the number of political alliances at the population level increases, the likelihood of organizational survival declines, although political alliances at the individual organizational level are beneficial for an organization. These relationships change dramatically as the movement matures. Implications for integrating social movement and organizations theories are discussed.
VL  - 28
SN  - 978-1-84663-892-3, 978-1-84663-893-0/0163-786X
DO  - 10.1016/S0163-786X(08)28006-7
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-786X(08)28006-7
AU  - Archibald Matthew E.
AU  - Freeman Kendralin J.
ED  - Patrick G. Coy
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Professional and political alliances, legitimating authority and the longevity of health movement organizations
T2  - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
T3  - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 171
EP  - 206
Y2  - 2024/05/07
ER  -