04802nam a22006375i 4500 978-981-99-9291-1 DE-He213 20251030112048.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240518s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819992911 978-981-99-9291-1 10.1007/978-981-99-9291-1 doi HD30.28 HD57.7 KJC bicssc BUS063000 bisacsh KJC thema Miura, Sayako. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 77026 Successful Social Activism and Unintended Market Emergence [electronic resource] : The Fight Over Foot Health and Fashion in Japan / by Sayako Miura. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXI, 189 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Part I Two Issues Related to Research on Social Movements Targeting Companies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Characteristics of Shoes and the Footwear Industry -- Part II Direct Effect of Activism: How an SMO Succeeded in Changing Corporate Behavior -- 3 Social Movement Targeting Companies -- 4 JIF’s Initial Strategy -- 5 Adjustment of JIF’s Strategy and Diffusion of Shoe Fitters -- Part III Indirect Effect of Activism: How Unintended Markets Emerged after an SMO’s Success -- 6 Social Movement Targeting Companies and Market Emergence -- 7 Emergence of the Comfort Shoe Market and Changes in Consumer Awareness -- 8 The European Comfort Shoe Market: Seeking Further Health Functions -- 9 The Walking Support Insoles Market: Moving Toward Walking Support -- 10 The Fashion-Oriented Transparent Insole Market: Fashioning Walking Support Insoles -- Part IV Unintended Consequences of Successful Activism -- 11 Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index. This book demonstrates why and how social activism targeting companies can produce unintended consequences. While it is challenging for social movement organizations (SMOs) to successfully change corporate behavior, it is even more difficult or impossible for SMOs to control the spillover effects of success. Successful social activism affects companies and consumers with diverse interests and intentions beyond the initial target of SMOs, which creates various business opportunities. Entrepreneurs are mobilized by the new opportunities that they identify to initiate their own businesses, and the chain of their actions may produce new market categories unintended by the SMO, including ones that are inconsistent with its superordinate goal. This book explores the process by which an SMO succeeds in changing corporate behavior and how this success leads to unintended market emergence by longitudinally examining the shoe industry in postwar Japan. The Japan Institute of Footwear, a private organization, began advocating shoe functionality over fashion in the 1960s and succeeded in changing corporate behavior in the 1980s through learning by doing; its success led to the unintended emergence of new market categories. The book’s findings offer novel theoretical insights into the relationship between social activism and market change. The analysis also helps us understand the historical context of a movement that emerged in 2019, #KuToo—the word being an amalgam of kutsu (shoes), kutsū (pain), and #MeToo—and to consider its future. Strategic planning. 57225 Leadership. 4372 Industrial organization. 57885 Retail trade. 74528 Nonprofit organizations. 68215 Entrepreneurship. New business enterprises. 61729 Small business. 65014 Business Strategy and Leadership. 67107 Organization. 59674 Trade and Retail. 74530 Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises. 68217 Entrepreneurship. Small Business. 65014 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819992904 Printed edition: 9789819992928 Printed edition: 9789819992935 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9291-1 ZDB-2-BUM ZDB-2-SXBM 59958 59958