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The Challenge of Activist Coalition Governance: Accommodating Diversity to Create Institutions—An Approach Via the Inter-Relationships Between Action, Project and Instrument

Abstract  

This paper addresses the governance of hybrid forms of organisation arising in new social movements, characterised by diverse
institutional logics and democratic decision making. Our theoretical framework encompasses the governance theory of Kooiman
with insights from new developments in institutional theory. This framework allows us to examine governance as the capacity
to link together disparate institutions from the perspective of interactions between action, project and instrument, and to
explore the institutional work that results from these interactions. By studying a French activist coalition, we explore the
micro-processes that make it possible to accommodate diversity in an organisation intended to produce solid institutions.
Our results show that the three elements of governance—action, project and instrument—have an impact on the cohesion of diversity-based
organisations and on building and consolidating institutions. When these elements are flexible and versatile enough, and when
they mutually nurture each other, a plurality of logics is possible, the coalition goes forward, and true institutional work
can be accomplished. When one of these elements of governance—instruments in particular—becomes autonomous and rigid, diversity
is more difficult to achieve and one logic is likely to prevail over the others, compromising the very survival of the coalition
and impeding the emergence of a new institution.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Pages 1-24
  • DOI 10.1007/s11266-011-9201-9
  • Authors
    • Carine Chemin, Reims Management School, Gregor, 59, rue Pierre Taittinger, 51100 Reims, France
    • Corinne Vercher, Department of Economic and Social Administration, University of Montpellier III, ERFI MRM, Route of Mende, 34000 Montpellier, France
    • Journal Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
    • Online ISSN 1573-7888
    • Print ISSN 0957-8765
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 08/31/2011 | Link to this post on IFP |
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