Strategic Framing Research Articles

Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia. By Jennie L. Schulze. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 416p. $31.95 paper.

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Why matter matters: How technology characteristics shape the strategic framing of technologies

Previous work stresses that actors use strategic technology framing—i.e. purposeful language and rhetoric—to shape technology expectations, persuade stakeholders, and influence the evolution of technologies along their life-cycle. Currently, however, the literature predominantly describes strategic technology framing as a sociopolitical process, and provides only limited insights into how the framing itself is shaped by the material characteristics of the technologies being framed. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a comparative, longitudinal case study of two leading research organizations in the United States and Germany pursuing competing solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies to examine how technology characteristics shape the strategic framing of technologies. We show that to frame PV technologies in their own favor, executives made use of four framing dimensions (potential, prospect, performance, and progress) and three framing tactics (conclusion, conditioning, and concession). Moreover, we show that which framing dimensions and tactics actors selected depended on the maturity and evolution of the technology they pursued, respectively. By highlighting how technology characteristics shape strategic technology framing, we contribute to the literatures on social movements, institutional entrepreneurship, and impression management. Additionally, by providing a coherent framework of strategic technology framing, our study complements existing findings in the literature on the sociology of expectations and contributes to a better understanding of how technology hypes emerge.

Strategic Framing of Adat in Land-Acquisition Politics in East Sumba

This article is about the strategic use of adat arguments in the politics of large-scale land acquisition. While customary (adat) communities are commonly depicted as small local minorities living in the forests and being guardians of the environment, in many situations such communities occupy a majority position within the district. Majority adat communities are internally differentiated into categories of actors with varying and conflicting interests. This article focuses on Sumba in eastern Indonesia, where state and adat powers are not opposed but historically aligned. We analyse how five common ways of framing adat in Sumba are currently being deployed in land-acquisition politics, in situations supporting plantation land acquisition or protesting against farmers’ land dispossession. We draw attention to what we call ‘strategic adat framing’ as a political activity. The article calls for analysing the historical and social context of local deployments of adat for understanding the impact of current government pro-adat policies.

Jennie L. Schulze, Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia

Jennie L. Schulze, <i>Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia</i>

ANALYSIS OF ROMANIAN IT INDUSTRY; STRATEGIC DIAGNOSTICS USING MICHAEL PORTER'S MODEL

The information technology (IT) sector represents a phenomenon of modern society, which has led to a favorable change in the economic course, in most countries of the world. This study aims to establish the attractiveness of the IT industry in Romania, as well as the factors that led to the development of the competitive environment, through a strategic diagnosis using a tool for strategic analysis and diagnosis - the model of the five forces, developed by Michael Porter. The results of the study indicate that all five strengths of Michael Porter's model exert significant influence, but in different proportions, on the competitive environment and the degree of attractiveness of the IT industry. Although Porter's model offers a clear strategic frame of the IT industry, it is quite static, and the manifestation of the five forces does not maintain its validity over time.

Socio-cultural framing during the emergence of a technological field: Creating cultural resonance for solar technology

This paper depicts how cultural resonance for novel technologies is constructed as a gradual, interactive process. We adopt a cultural framing perspective and strive to understand how actors assign meaning to the novel technology and determine its appropriateness for the local context. Existing research has largely focused on the strategic and political aspects of field framing processes through depicting conscious framing struggles between protagonist and antagonist actors. In addition to such strategic framing activities, we examine how other socio-cultural factors, such as changes in actor positions, interaction between framing activities, and the cultural “repertoire” of frames interact in producing cultural resonance. For our empirical case study, we followed the emerging technological field of solar energy during an intensive period of change. Our study contributes to the growing number of studies that draw attention to the creation of cultural resonance as an interactive multi-actor process by offering in-depth understanding of the multifaceted interactions that constitute the meaning-making process for an emerging field.

Ambivalent Framing and Coping Process Underlying New Product Development

Despite the emerging research on strategic issue framing has shifted the attention from the clear-cut ‘threat’ or ‘opportunity’ interpretations of the environment to the phenomenon of ambivalence, ...

The Discursive Appeal to Solidarity and Partisan Journalism in Europe’s Migration Crisis

The article analyses the discursive appeal to solidarity in the mass media during the unfolding of Europe’s migration crisis. Solidarity was claimed by numerous actors in the public discourse to legitimise political decisions and mobilise public opinion. While it seems that the call for solidarity was shared by many actors, media studies show the ‘partisan journalism’ of media outlets. Thus, the political orientation of media outlets influences their coverage of public debates. Hence, to what extent do different quality newspapers cover the same solidarity claims in times of crisis? In order to answer this question, the crisis coverage of two German and two Irish newspapers with centre-left and centre-right political orientations is examined via the discourse network methodology. Germany is selected due to high political parallelism and a strong affectedness by the crisis, while Ireland is selected because of low political parallelism and a weak affectedness by the migration crisis. The findings demonstrate that partisan journalism persists during Europe’s migration crisis. Especially German party actors are present in both countries, underpinning the central position of Germany. Regarding the appeal to solidarity, political solidarity claims prevail in all four newspapers, indicating the political-institutional asymmetry in the Common European Asylum System. The study contributes to the strategic framing of concepts in public debates and demonstrates that the left-right distinction of media outlets is hardly affected by the migration crisis.

Jennie L.Schulze, Strategic frames: Europe, Russia, and minority inclusion in Estonia and Latvia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 416 pp. $31.95 (pbk)

Jennie L.Schulze, Strategic frames: Europe, Russia, and minority inclusion in Estonia and Latvia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 416 pp. $31.95 (pbk)

Reviewing how intergenerational learning can help conservation biology face its greatest challenge

Environmental problems can be resolved when the public is no longer willing to accept their risks and demands change (i.e., Reflexive Modernization). Notable examples include responses to the ozone hole and acid rain, but in an emerging post-truth world, politicization of conservation can result in adults ignoring risks and accepting the status quo (i.e., Anti-Reflexivity). This problem is particularly acute for conservation biology challenges linked to climate change. Although strategic framing of conservation messages can help overcome ideological barriers to conservation actions, additional methods are needed to engage citizens in addressing loss of biodiversity. We argue that child to parent intergenerational learning is an understudied but promising pathway to incite biodiversity conservation actions among children and adults. Children have unique perspectives on wildlife and conservation, are easily reached in schools, and are likely the best equipped to help parents navigate ideologically fraught topics in ways that create action. We review key practices of intergenerational learning and outline how its best practices may be integrated in conservation biology programming and research.

Institutionalization of the UN Police Peacekeeping

Article studies the strategic frame, organizational and operational aspects of UN peacekeeping missions police components activities to ensure sustaining peace.It is noted that at present the UN Police actively participates in UN peace operations acting as an integrated solution of issues of peace and security. Consideration is also given to the growing importance of the UN Police to international peace and security and the increased attention given to policing by the Security Council and the Secretary General.The UN police now engage in United Nations peace operations across the entire peace and security spectrum, from conflict prevention to peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Serving in the frame of UN interim administrations the UN Police acquired a unique experience of law enforcement and international cooperation on combating crime.It underscores the most recent global developments, including advances made in the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Police Peacekeeping, to ensure coherence of effort and refine strategic police generation platforms.From the viewpoint of the structural and functional approach, the UN Police as a peacekeeping actor has not only specific functions and tasks, but also the potential, organizational structure, trained personnel needed to perform a wide range of tasks both at the stage of conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding.The legal and organizational issues of UN Police involvement in peacekeeping activities are almost resolved. At present the UN Police component as an institutional subsystem represents an organizational structure that unites international policemen from various member states, which acts as a collective actor in UN peacekeeping.

Strategic framing to influence clients\u2019 risky decisions

This paper develops a model of persuasive demand inducement in the expert–client relationship. The expert frames the decision on whether or not to buy expert services faced by a client with prospect-theoretic preferences, by making the client see this decision from the perspective of a particular reference point. When inducing a client to buy risky curative services, the expert should set a high reference point, and frame all outcomes as losses. When instead inducing a client to buy safe preventive services, as long as the client’s loss aversion is sufficiently high, the expert should set an intermediate reference point, framing high outcomes as gains and low outcomes as losses.

Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia

Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia

When environmental legacy becomes a resource: On the making of secondary resources

Recycling and extracting secondary resources from dumped materials has been considered as an option for generating a supply of critical minerals. Materials that are understood as secondary resources were already in use in society, but became devaluated and have been discarded as useless and worthless. In this article, we argue that the process of valorization that shifts material from the category of ‘worthless’ to the category of ‘valuable’ is a prerequisite for the making of secondary resources. We conceptualize valorization as a social process of framing in which the collective understanding of waste materials changes. Taking a frame theoretical approach, we aim to reveal how the understanding of waste materials as resources resonates culturally in two German case study regions. We will demonstrate that there are three features that influence the cultural resonance of this understanding quite differently in the two regions: the credibility of frame articulators, narrative fidelity and experiential commensurability. In one of the regions the resource frame is made culturally resonant through the acknowledged expertise of scientists and industries that tie in with the region’s history and daily experiences, while in the other region, the resource frame is weakened due to bitter memories of historical developments and contested knowledge claims. By linking ideas from valorization studies with concepts from strategic framing, we are contributing to the scientific discourse regarding the production of secondary resources.

Listing Specs: The Effect of Attribute Orders on Choice

Evidence from various choice domains shows that the presentation order of the attributes of the available options can have important effects on decisions. We introduce a decision-theoretic model that allows for such effects. We identify simple properties of observable behavior that characterize the model. We show how attribute-order effects can cause the choice of an alternative to depend on its position on a list. Finally, we apply our model to derive some new insights into strategic framing in advertising and phenomena like the endowment effect.

Will Sexual Minority Rights Be Trumped? Assessing the Policy Sustainability of LGBTI Rights Diplomacy in American Foreign Policy

ABSTRACTA hallmark of the Barack Obama Administration’s foreign policy was the incorporation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender and Intersex [LGBTI] rights diplomacy. With the change to the Donald Trump Administration in January 2017, this new aspect of American foreign policy has yet to be tested. This analysis investigates the methods used by advocates and government allies to imbed this policy in foreign policy institutions to increase the difficulty of a full policy reversal. It argues that whilst new leadership does not always support LGBTI equality domestically, LGBTI diplomacy will not likely face eradication from foreign policy mandates largely due to the strategic framing of LGBTI rights diplomacy.

“Nullification through armed civil disobedience”: a case study of strategic framing in the patriot/militia movement

ABSTRACT The patriot/militia movement in the US has grown in prominence over the past several years, with the movement engaging in high-profile conflicts with law enforcement (e.g., at the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada in 2014) and political opponents (e.g., clashing with antifascist activists in Boston and Berkeley in 2017). One of the strategies movement leaders use to solicit support is to ground their goals and behaviour in American history. This article presents a case study of one striking example of this, where a leading figure in the movement (Mike Vanderboegh, who popularized the idea of the Three Percenters) attempted to justify his advocacy of violating the law by simultaneously claiming the legal legitimacy of nullification and the moral legitimacy of civil disobedience. I argue that this rhetoric is an example of strategic frame appropriation. This type of frame appropriation serves the purpose of legitimating violent resistance to government by drawing parallels to other forms of political activism that are widely respected.

Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia. By Jennie L. Schulze. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xxii, 394 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $31.95, paper.

Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia. By Jennie L. Schulze. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xxii, 394 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $31.95, paper. - Volume 78 Issue 1

The framing of charitable giving: A field experiment at bottle refund machines in Germany

This article investigates the decision of consumers at bottle refund machines to either reclaim their bottle deposit or to donate the refund to a non-profit organization. The study documents the unique pre-intervention data on donating behaviour and introduces a field experiment to increase donation levels. The design comprised the strategic framing of the situation by highlighting different cues about the normative, descriptive and local expectations of charitable giving as well as cues about the warm glow of donating money. The experiment took place in 20 supermarkets in Germany and lasted for 12 months. By varying the experimental design and using different modelling approaches, the study arrives at the conclusion that individuals largely act consistent with the assumption having self-regarding preferences that are stable and difficult to change. Hence, our pre-test and post-intervention data stand in sharp contrast to results from lab experiments.

From Protest to Product: Strategic Frame Brokerage in a Commercial Social Movement Organization

Social movement organizations that engage directly in commercial activities face the particular challenge of mobilizing movement activists and commercial actors simultaneously. In a seven-year case...