Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONTENTIOUS AND PRIVATE POLITICS, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
- 3 ANTICORPORATE PROTEST IN THE UNITED STATES, 1960–1990
- 4 THE EFFECT OF PROTEST ON UNIVERSITY DIVESTMENT
- 5 PRIVATE AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN THE POST-1990 ERA
- 6 CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Description of Data Used in Chapter 3
- Appendix B Modeling Technique Used in Chapter 3
- Appendix C Sources of Data for Analysis in Chapter 4
- Appendix D Modeling Technique Used in Chapter 4
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - CONCLUSION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONTENTIOUS AND PRIVATE POLITICS, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
- 3 ANTICORPORATE PROTEST IN THE UNITED STATES, 1960–1990
- 4 THE EFFECT OF PROTEST ON UNIVERSITY DIVESTMENT
- 5 PRIVATE AND CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN THE POST-1990 ERA
- 6 CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Description of Data Used in Chapter 3
- Appendix B Modeling Technique Used in Chapter 3
- Appendix C Sources of Data for Analysis in Chapter 4
- Appendix D Modeling Technique Used in Chapter 4
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I began this book by noting that anticorporate sentiment and distrust of corporations in the United States date much further back than the current era – an era that has been hailed by scholars, corporate leaders, and activists a like as one of increasing levels of private politics directed at corporations. I suggested a gentle corrective to this characterization by arguing that what we may in fact be seeing is a transformation in the way that those dissatisfied with corporations attempt to effect change therein. With the decline in organized labor and the erosion of the regulatory system in the United States, critics of corporations seem to have adopted another strategy to influence corporations. Rather than focusing on indirectly targeting corporations via organized labor and/or government regulation, they now also directly target corporations, thereby circumventing these older channels of influence. They do this as outsiders to the corporation via protest, boycotts, and other means, but they sometimes also do this as insiders to the corporation via various forms of shareholder activism. Thus, at the outset of this book, my hope was to encourage researchers to view anticorporate activism through a broader historical lens and to think about the way in which early events of anticorporate activism are similar to those occurring in the second half of the twentieth century and to those occurring today.
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- Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility , pp. 145 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009