Private Environmental Activism and the Selection and Response of Firm Targets

By Michael J. Lenox, Charles E. Eesley. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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The potential role of carbon labeling in a green economy (2012, background): “Lenox and Eesley (2009) provide evidence on the role of NGO boycotts and other forms of pressure on firm behavior.”
How Media Coverage of Corporate Social Irresponsibility Increases Financial Risk (2017, unknown): “In fact, hurting a firm’s earnings is a common objective of stakeholder sanctions, in order to obtain leverage over the targeted firm (Lenox and Eesley, 2009).”
Does financial resource slack drive sustainability expenditure in developing economy small and medium-sized enterprises? (2017, background): “However, it must be acknowledged that the probability of a targeted firm to comply with activist demands depends on the perceived operational lossesver us gains (King and Lenox, 2002; Lenox and Eesley, 2009).”
Codes in context: How states, markets, and civil society shape adherence to global labor standards: Codes in context (2015, background): “MNCs therefore often accede to the demands of mobilized consumers and activists to adopt CSR measures such as codes of conduct (Lenox & Eesley 2009; Soule 2009; Fransen 2012).”
How Firms Respond to Being Rated (2010, methodology): “We identified firms that operate in a highly environmentally regulated context based on a classification devised by Cho and Patten (2007). A dichotomous variable, highly environmentally regulated, was coded ‘1’ for companies with a primary standard industrial classification (SIC) code of mining (SIC”
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing (2016, unknown): “practices are influenced by a wide array of collective action by activists (Eesley and Lenox, 2006; King, 2008; Lenox and Eesley, 2009; Reid and Toffel, 2009).”