The productive collaboration between organizational sociology and social movement theory is
one place where scholars can build this study. Introducing a special issue of Mobilization, Caniglia
and Carmin (2005) articulate that social movement organizations should be studied in their own
right and that the clear way to accomplish this is to link social movement theories (such as resource
mobilization, political process, and framing) to organizational theories (such as resource dependence
and new institutionalism). This conversation has produced a book (Davis, McAdam, Scott, &
Zald, 2005) that highlights the similarities and differences in the theories and points to how social
movement theory can benefit from organizational understandings of processes and outcomes and