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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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/40973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 the Circuit Riders' grassroots approach, which was rooted in their commitment to a cause, these consultancie |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From social movement to moral market |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8906-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464496303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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