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The paper summarized is: Hambrick, D. C., & Chen, M. J. (2008). New academic fields as admittance-seeking social movements: The case of strategic management. Academy of Management Review , 33 (1), 32-54. The objectives of the authors in this paper were three: presenting a generalizable model to explain the rise of new academic fields, refine and extend the original social movement model and in elaborating the model, present a complete analysis of the rise of strategic management. Members of an informal community will take up a campaign to set up a new academic field only if two conditions are filled – the agenda of the community is long-term and that they cannot fulfill their objectives by continuing as an informal community. The authors modeled the ascent of a new academic field as a successful admittance-seeking social movement on three major elements: differentiation, mobilization and legitimacy. The field needs to differentiate itself from other fields, saying there are certain problems that cannot be solved if we don’t break away, mobilize resources – the political opportunity structure, shared interests and social infrastructure should be in place or be put in place and build legitimacy by intellectual persuasion and by adhering to the prevalent style of related adjacent fields.

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