ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN ROMANIAN WOMEN‟S RIGHTS GROUPS: IN BETWEEN PERSONAL, INTER-PERSONAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN ROMANIAN WOMEN‟S RIGHTS GROUPS: IN BETWEEN PERSONAL, INTER-PERSONAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at exploring the process through which women‘s rights organizations in Romania expand or change their means of action and influence. While studies on post-communist activism describe social change groups in the area as employing multiple means of influencing the decision making process, the process through which such tactical expansion occurs is not so much discussed. Data consisting in interviews with women‘s rights activists and organizational documents point to the variety of factors that lead activists and organizations towards the change or broadening of their strategy: environmental, organizational and personal. The move of service providing organizations towards advocacy activities or of advocacy groups towards protest activities is contextually explained through the relations between organizations and state institutions, through the dynamics of inter-organizational influence, but also through individual feelings of disappointment and frustration over a perceived lack of efficiency in producing social change.

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