?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2Fid%2Feprint%2F9177%2F&rft.title=Organic+Agriculture+Movement+at+a+Crossroad+-+a+Comparative+Study+of+Denmark+and+Japan&rft.creator=Fomsgaard%2C+Saki+Ichihara&rft.subject=+Policy+environments+and+social+economy&rft.subject=+Regulation&rft.subject=+Community+development&rft.subject=Consumer+issues&rft.subject=+Networks+and+ownership&rft.description=Along+with+apparent+institutionalisation+of+organic+agriculture+that+took+place+in+the+last+couple+of+decades%2C+the+role+of+organic+agriculture+organisations+as+a+social+movement+actor+has+increasingly+being+put+into+question.+Under+this+circumstance%2C+there+can+be+observed+an+evidence+of+%E2%80%9Cdivision%E2%80%9D+among+these+organisations+at+being+foe+or+ally+to+this+trend+of+institutionalisation.+Why+have+such+competing+trajectories+existed+in+this+social+movement+field%3F+And+how+have+different+trajectories+evolved+throughout+the+time%3F+Through+a+comparative+study+of+two+organisations+related+to+organic+agriculture+in+Denmark+and+Japan%2C+it+argues+that+a+cause+of+the+discrepancy+can+be+found+in+fundamentally+different+formulations+of+the+concepts+of+organic+agriculture+and+the+related+movement%2C+and+thus+different+organisational+fields+in+which+the+organisations+have+been+embedded.+It+further+attests+that+the+process+of+external+institutionalisation%2C+punctuated+typically+by+the+establishment+of+the+national+organic+law%2C+has+affected+the+internal+institutionalisation+of+both+organisations%2C+regardless+of+its+self-determined+orientation+toward+pro-+or+anti-+institutionalisation.+Yet%2C+how+far+or+how+fast+the+internal+institutionalisation+process+will+develop+may+still+depend+on+the+orientation+of+an+organisation%2C+when+it+potentially+can+preserve+substantial+autonomy+from+such+process+by+refraining+itself+from+creating+business-client+relationship+with+its+own+constituency+and+from+compromising+direct+participation+of+its+constituency+to+collective+actions.&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Working+paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=%2Fid%2Feprint%2F9177%2F1%2F9177.pdf&rft.identifier=+++Fomsgaard%2C+Saki+Ichihara++++(2006)+Organic+Agriculture+Movement+at+a+Crossroad+-+a+Comparative+Study+of+Denmark+and+Japan.++++Working+paper+from+Department+of+Economics%2C+Politics+and+Public+Administration%2C+Aalborg+University%2C+no.+2006%3A6%2C+Department+of+Economics%2C+Politics+and+Public+Administration%2C+Aalborg+University+.++++++++