Organizing Spaces: Meeting Arenas as a Social Movement Infrastructure between Organization, Network, and Institution

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 705-732

  Haug, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

communication as constitutive of organization (CCO); free spaces; meetings; mesomobilization; network; organizing; social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878946934     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613479232     Document Type: Article

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