Between social cause and industrial commodity : the development of a market for biodiesel in the United States
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines how commercial industry proponents and a grassroots production movement collaborated in the development of a market for biodiesel in the United States between 1992 and 2012. I draw on institutional and social movement theory to suggest how the exigencies of stabilizing a new market compel collaboration even in the presence of ideological differences. Drawing on ethnographic interviews and archival data on the grassroots biodiesel movement and the commercial biodiesel industry, my analysis shows how the industry and the movement initially sought different forms of institutional legitimacy that reflected their contrasting goals for market development. In the face of constraints from the institutional environment, the movement and industry pooled their legitimacy to support the development of a unified biodiesel market, resulting in a social order that does not exhibit the patterns of partitioning or contestation that prior research might predict.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Chung, Daisy Eusun |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Thesis advisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Thesis advisor | Hinds, Pamela |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Advisor | Hinds, Pamela |
| Advisor | Powell, Walter W |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daisy Eusun Chung. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Daisy Eusun Chung
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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