The Power of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business

By D. Spar, Lane T. La Mure. 2003

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World – A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy (2011, unknown): “2004; den Hond and de Bakker 2007; Pearce II and Doh 2005; Spar and La Mure 2003; Yaziji and Doh 2009), already partly with an explicit focus on the role of business/NGO interaction in global governance (Doh and Guay 2006; Frenkel and Scott 2002; Teegen et al.”
• Mitigating global supply chain risks through corporate social responsibility (2013, background): “…as a way of enhancing their reputation (Fombrun 2001, 2005), preempting legal sanctions (Parker 2002), responding to NGO action (Spar and La Mure 2003), managing their risk (Fombrun, Gardberg, and Barnett 2000; Husted 2005), and generating customer loyalty (Bhattacharya and Sen 2001, 2004).”
• Collaborating with Activists: How Starbucks Works with NGOs (2004, background): “In their recent California Management Review article “The Power of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business,” Debora Spar and Lane La Mure suggest that businesses base their responses to NGO threats on how those threats would affect the company’s transaction costs, brand, and compet”