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Successful social activism and unintended market emergencethe fight over foot health and fashion in Japan /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Successful social activism and unintended market emergenceby Sayako Miura.
Reminder of title:	the fight over foot health and fashion in Japan /
Author:	Miura, Sayako.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2024.
Description:	xxi, 189 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Consumer movementsJapan.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9291-1
ISBN:	9789819992911$q(electronic bk.)

Successful social activism and unintended market emergencethe fight over foot health and fashion in Japan /
Miura, Sayako.

Successful social activism and unintended market emergencethe fight over foot health and fashion in Japan /[electronic resource] :by Sayako Miura. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2024. - xxi, 189 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9789819992911$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-99-9291-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

970200
Consumer movements
--Japan.

LC Class. No.: HC465.C6

Dewey Class. No.: 381.320952

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