Organizations and Social Movement Networks

Abstract

In the past two decades we have witnessed two severe crises, the 2008 Great Recession and the covid-19 pandemic. The crises, especially the covid-19 pandemic, severely altered the context in which organizational dynamics take place. Civil society and social movement organizations responded to these changes in a variety of ways, while facing increasing inequalities, shrinking resources and escalating competition within the organizational field. We welcome papers that are particularly interested in examining how crises affect organizational networks and organizational dynamics. In this framework, we invite contributions that examine civil society and social movement organizations - that regard both contentious politics and organizations operating in forms of solidarity, service and good provision - during crises or in times of pandemic. We welcome conceptual and theoretically-informed empirical papers, on single cases or comparative analyses, utilizing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods that analyze: • changes in organizational practices, repertoire of actions, and domains, in particular, in relation to the emergence of inter-organizational dynamics online and offline, i.e., impacts, synergies, feedback and buffers to organizational engagement and networks; • organizations and other actors involved in the networks, focusing in their homogeneity and/or heterogeneity, while re-examining the classic divide between political oriented actors versus services provision actors, their organisational forms, issues and domains of activities, as well as organizational strategies; • inter-organizational interactions; how social movement organizations adapted to unexpected circumstances and how they cope with the negative consequences of a crisis including analysis of inter-organizational networks of cooperation, support and solidarity, cohesiveness, fragmentation or clustering effects • meanings, knowledge, narratives frames, collective identities mobilised within networks • methodological issues on the analysis of direct networks of interorganizational cooperation and of two modes networks including networks of individuals and organizations or networks of organizations and events.

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