Authors: Asta Salmi; Tiina Ritvala
The aim of this paper is to investigate mobilization of actors around a common issue and the ensuing institutional and network changes. The issue and problem (in our case, a disease) is chosen so that it can only be resolved by collective action of different types of actors at different levels. We examine how actors may be mobilized, how institutional rules for behaviour change and how this influences different networks. Empirically, we focus on collective action needed to tackle heart disease, which is a largely overlooked global health problem. Our empirical case depicts how institutional change resulted in an emergence of a new issue-based network and furthermore, in new interaction rules and relationships reflected in industrial networks, such as between food companies and medical research institutes.
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Publish Year: 2008
Conference: Uppsala, Sweden (2008)