A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms' Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 683-703

  Dubuisson Quellier, Sophie ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

consumers; economic sociology; environmental movement; market; market devices; mediation model; social movement; valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878953026     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613479227     Document Type: Article

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