STRATEGIC ACTIVISM AND NONMARKET STRATEGY David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier Stanford University and Northwestern University ABSTRACT Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to force change in the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics‚ activist strategies‚ and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine strategies
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Enron‚ Ethics And Today’s Corporate Values Enron’s heyday has long ended. But its lessons will long endure. The global business community is now watching a painful new chapter is this saga — one where its former high-riding chief executive officer‚ Jeff Skilling‚ is getting a decade shaved off of his prison term that should now end in 2017. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The company’s failure in 2001 represents the biggest business bankruptcy ever while also spotlighting
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James Weber (1991). Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Managers Moral Reasoning 293-313 Introduction This review intents to summarize and evaluate the adaptions of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Moral Judgment Interview and Standard Issue Scoring method by James Weber. The article “Adapting Kohlberg to Enhance the Assessment of Managers Moral Reasoning” by James Weber mentions four different adaptions of the moral judgment interview and the standard issue scoring method. These modifications have
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However‚ some critics will argue that darkness did not wreak chaos onto mankind; rather‚ it is humankind that is responsible for its own destruction. According to David Spitz‚ “If anything were to go wrong‚ as it tragically did‚ it could only come‚ then‚ from within; the only enemy of man was himself” (Spitz 5). In other words‚ Spitz believes that darkness did not inflict chaos or conflict in the novel. The true source of the destruction was no one other than mankind who was responsible. If mankind
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As industries turn increasingly hostile‚ it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker’s pathbreaking book‚ Managing Brand Equity‚ managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company’s primary source of competitive advantage. Now‚ in this compelling new work‚ Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn‚ General Electric‚ Kodak‚ Healthy Choice‚ McDonald’s‚ and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and
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take it all‚ and votes for defeated candidates are simply wasted and do not count anymore. The electoral reform was one of the central objectives of the Liberal Democrats‚ led by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The referendum gave the victory to David Cameron: the British prime minister who has launched the most savage cut programs in the country since the Second World War. The defeated is‚ above all‚ the Liberal Democrats’ leader who has seen his party being swept away by the polls and witnessed
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King Duncan? How would this have been interpreted by a Shakespearean audience? I think Macbeth was to blame for the death of King Duncan‚ he comes across as a very weak character yet he is ambitious and brave which is shown at the beginning of the play where it said sliced a man from the middle‚ up and placed he’s head on a spike. “…Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops‚ And fixed his head upon our battlements.” Act1‚ Scene 2‚ lines 22-23 This impressed the King‚ and Duncan saw Macbeth
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[1] when I first read the cases and my opinion on the specific case is unchanged even after reading an article by W.R. Duncan[2]. However W.R Duncan does detail some valid points about the case and the precedent that it may or may not have implied. In this essay I am going to evaluate and discuss Mr. Chief Justice Finlay’s judgment in the Supreme Court with regards to W.R. Duncan article. Analysis The J.H. case concerned a baby who had been placed into an adoption process by her then unmarried
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Major changes in rules and regulations Since the Enron collapsed an array of new laws and regulations has been adopted to tighten corporate oversight. US offices were the first one to come out and implement the policies. Almost all of the firms had their headquarters in the US and they replicated their headquarters policies to a good extend in other offices around the world. Also other governments and regulatory bodies around the world came out with their country specific rules and regulations which
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David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother
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