INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM
           • Alternative/Collectivist organization (Rothschild-Whitt, 1979)
           • Building upon identity politics and addressing inequality suffered by 
            marginalized populations
           • Available to groups of people that may lack resources and capital to 
            form a more conventional organization
           • What happens when these alternative organizations realize they 
            have the capacity to transition to a more hierarchical organization?
                 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
           • How is organizational leadership perceiving the transition from 
            an alternative organization, to a hierarchical organization?   
           • How does the transition to a hierarchical organizations support, 
            or stifle, organizational innovation? 
                                                                                       SETTING
                                       • Sex Workers Outreach Project-Chicago
                                          •  Advocates for decriminalization of the sex trade, and anti-criminalization broadly
                                       • Peer support group/party organizer  Service providing organization
                                       • Individual donations  Foundation grants
                                       • Underground organization  501c3 nonprofit
                                       • Sex radicals  Service providers/public health departments
                                                                                     METHODS
                                       • Fourteen month participant-observation (July 2015-September 2016) with 
                                          SWOP-Chicago
                                       • Part of a larger study on the institutional field of sex work and sex 
                                          trafficking in Chicago
                                       • Fifty-three interviews
                                          •  Nine with board members of SWOP-Chicago
                                          •  Thirty-eight with service providers
                                          •  Two with government employees
                                          •  Four with advocates for End Demand opposing end goal of SWOP-Chicago