ABSTRACT
In assessing the social movement associated with building the emerging accountability assurance infrastructure so far, wehavebeen considering the efforts of those difference makers who saw a gap in the existing institutional arrangements and built new institutions and organizations to bridge that space. This type of activity is what social movement theorists call tapping into opportunity structures. Of course, the early efforts of differencemakers also involved the framingprocesses of defining relevant issues and the landscape for responsibility, accountability, and transparency. As the movement developed, a third element of social movements became apparent — the building of mobilizing structures: in this case, networks of actors with similar interests in changing the way that businesses interacted with society. It is to these differencemakers — the networkers —whose primary activities have been in building various and interlinked networks of actors to potentially mobilize action, that we now turn.
