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Sarah A. Soule is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and business management. Their work focuses on several main fields, including Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with notable activity in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Communication, Information Systems and Management, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research covers a range of topics with repeated focus on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Social Media and Politics, Ethics in Business and Education, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Social Capital and Networks, Social and Cultural Dynamics, and Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

Sarah A. Soule has several recent papers reflecting varied interests and collaborative efforts. These include:

  • Integrating Design into Organizations: The Coevolution of Design Capabilities (2020) - California Management Review
  • How Tilly's WUNC Works: Bystander Evaluations of Social Movement Signals Lead to Mobilization (2023) - American Journal of Sociology
  • Corporate Activism and Corporate Identity (2021) - SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Corporate Activism and Organizational Authenticity (2022) - Academy of Management Proceedings
  • What the WUNC? Perceptions of WUNC and Social Movement Mobilization (2020) - Academy of Management Proceedings

The publication venues where Sarah A. Soule frequently publishes include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • California Management Review
  • American Journal of Sociology

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, often working with other scholars such as Lambert Zixin Li, Hayagreeva Rao, Tua Björklund, Hanna Maula, and Jesse Maula, with Lambert Zixin Li among the most frequent coauthors.

Best Publications

  • DIFFUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

    David Strang;Sarah A. Soule

  • The use of newspaper data in the study of collective action

    Jennifer Earl;Andrew Martin;John D. McCarthy;Sarah A. Soule

  • The Blackwell companion to social movements

    David Alan Snow;Sarah Anne Soule;Hanspeter Kriesi

  • Social Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protests on Stock Price Returns

    Brayden G King;Sarah A. Soule

  • Process and Protest: Accounting for Individual Protest Participation

    Alan Schussman;Sarah Anne Soule

  • Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Sarah Anne Soule

  • Mapping the Terrain

    David A. Snow;Sarah A. Soule;Hanspeter Kriesi

  • A Primer on Social Movements

    David A. Snow;Sarah Anne Soule

  • When Do Movements Matter? The Politics of Contingency and the Equal Rights Amendment:

    Sarah A. Soule;Susan Olzak

  • The Student Divestment Movement in the United States and Tactical Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest

    Sarah A. Soule

  • Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat: Explaining Levels of Patriot and Militia Organizing in the United States

    Nella van Dyke;Sarah A. Soule

  • A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges

    Mary-Hunter McDonnell;Brayden King;Sarah A. Soule

  • Protest under fire? Explaining the policing of protest

    Jennifer Earl;Sarah A. Soule;John D. McCarthy

  • The stages of the policy process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982

    Sarah A. Soule;Brayden G. King

  • THE TARGETS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: BEYOND A FOCUS ON THE STATE

    Nella Van Dyke;Sarah A. Soule;Verta A. Taylor

  • Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995

    Dan J. Wang;Sarah A. Soule

  • Protesting While Black? The Differential Policing of American Activism, 1960 to 1990

    Christian Davenport;Sarah A. Soule;David A. Armstrong

  • The diffusion of social movements : actors, mechanisms, and political effects

    Rebecca Kolins Givan;Kenneth M. Roberts;Sarah Anne Soule

  • Competition and Resource Partitioning in Three Social Movement Industries

    Sarah A. Soule;Brayden G King

  • Seeing Blue: A Police-Centered Explanation of Protest Policing

    Jennifer Earl;Sarah A. Soule

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Snow
David A. Snow University of California, Irvine
Anand Swaminathan
Anand Swaminathan Emory University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Verta Taylor
Verta Taylor University of California, Santa Barbara

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