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McInerney Paul-Brian <1970-> |
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Titolo |
From social movement to moral market : how the circuit riders sparked an IT revolution and created a technology market / / Paul-Brian McInerney |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social movements - United States |
Nonprofit organizations - Information technology - United States |
Technology consultants - United States |
Consulting firms - United States |
Markets - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
Markets - Social aspects - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The circuit rider mounts : establishing worth and the birth of a social movement -- Organizing for change : conferences, meetings, and the configuration of fields -- Institutional entrepreneurs build a bridge : connecting movements and markets through social enterprise -- Walking the values tightrope : the moral ambivalence of social enterprise -- The circuit riders respond : conventions of coordination as movements react to markets -- Patterns worth noting : markets out of movements. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In From Social Movement to Moral Market, Paul-Brian McInerney explores what happens when a movement of activists gives way to a market for entrepreneurs. This book explains the transition by tracing the brief and colorful history of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who sought to lead nonprofits across the digital divide. In a single decade, this movement spawned a market for technology assistance providers, dedicated to serving nonprofit organizations. In contrast to |
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