The evolution of self-help
By: by Matthew E. Archibald.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Self-help techniques -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The demography of self-help; title: Self-help organizations; title: An organizational ecology of health movement organizations; title: Defining self-help : how does a movement become an institution?; title: The origins of self-help : an abbreviated history; title: The institutionalization of self-help; title: Cultural enactment, organizational diffusion, and the politics of self-help; title: Organizational ecology and the self-help movement; title: From small beginnings : growth and diversification; title: Creating a self-help database; title: Measuring growth, decline, and diversification; title: Applying organizational ecology to self-help; title: Detailing trends : the shape of the movement; title: Legitimation : the paradox of public recognition; title: The importance of medical, academic, popular, and political recognition; title: How legitimation works; title: Sources of self-help legitimation; title: Case studies : self-help legitimation; title: The challenge of legitimation; title: The evolution of public recognition and its consequences; title: Measuring specialty groups; title: Measuring legitimation : self-help database sources; title: The importance of different sources of legitimation; title: Public recognition : evidence from self-help data; title: Predicting self-help formation; title: Resources : how competition selects only the fittest organizations; title: How resources and competition are measured; title: Competition and its effects; title: Resources and competition; title: Conclusion and future directions; title: The evolution of self-help empirical findings.