Brayden King
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Contact Information
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Research
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I study organizational and institutional change. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the relationship between competition, change, and valuation processes.
My theoretical interests have led to me to look at organizational change in two very different fields. In one research vein, I look at social movements and the processes that lead to differentiation among social movement organizations trying to affect change. In addition I look at the various ways that social movement organizations with different structures and goals can achieve institutional change through direct action.
In a second vein of research I examine corporate change in a more traditional market. I have focused my research so far on the communications industries. My disseration and related papers examine how competition in the communications market structures valuation processes following a corporate acquisition. I assert that where a company is positioned in a competitive field frames its strategic actions for investors and, in this way, shapes the market value of firms engaging in acquisitions. Recently, I have initiated new research projects attempting to link these two veins of research by looking at the effects of social movement organizing on corporate change.
Education
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PhD
Sociology
University of Arizona
2005
Publications
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Sarah Soule and Brayden G King
(2008).
Competition and resource partitioning in three social movement industries.
American Journal of Sociology.
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Brayden G King
(2008).
A political mediation model of corporate response to social movement activism.
Administrative Science Quarterly.
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Brayden G King and David Whetten
(2008).
A social identity formulation of organizational reputation and legitimacy.
Corporate Reputation Review.
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Brayden G King
(2008).
A Social Movement Perspective of Stakeholder Collective Action and Influence.
Business and Society.
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Marie Cornwall, Brayden King, Elizabeth Legerski, Eric Dahlin, and Kendra Schiffman
(2007).
Signals or Mixed Signals: Why Opportunities for Mobilization are not Opportunities for Policy Reform.
Mobilization.
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Brayden King, Keith G. Bentele, and Sarah A. Soule
(2007).
Protest and Policymaking: Explaining Fluctuation in Congressional Attention to Rights Issues, 1960-1986.
Social Forces.
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Brayden G King and Sarah A. Soule
(2007).
Social Movements as Extra-institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protest on Stock Price Returns.
Administrative Science Quarterly.
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Sarah Soule and BRAYDEN KING
(2006).
The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982.
American Journal of Sociology.
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BRAYDEN KING and Marie Cornwall
(2005).
Specialists and Generalists: Learning Strategy in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1866-1918.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change.
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BRAYDEN KING, Marie Cornwall, and Eric C. Dahlin
(2005).
Winning Woman Suffrage One Step at a Time: Social Movements and the Logic of the Legislative Process..
Social Forces.
Awards
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Cooperative Research Council Grant
The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
2007
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