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Description:: Over the last decade, a rising trend of corporations publicly acting on social and political issues has come to the fore. The issues and methods have both varied widely—from immigration to abortion, and from advertisements to boycotts. This introduces an interesting puzzle in the realm of strategy research: Where does...
Keyword:: corporate sociopolitical involvement, social movements, corporate social responsibility, nonmarket strategy, business strategy, and corporate political activity
Subject:: Management and Sociology
Creator:: McKean, Anna Eileen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16374 and etdadmin_upload_947265

Description:: This study aims to explain variations in student movement successes and failures during regime transitions. Examining the 1998–99 Indonesian student movement that helped ending the Suharto regime, this study argues that the degree of state repression influences the degree of coordination and assistance from opposition groups and actors to students,...
Keyword:: student movements, regime transition, social movements, and Indonesia
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Fajar, Muhammad
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_767382 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15310

Description:: A growing body of research analyzes how corporate social responsibility programs are used to absorb and neutralize the social criticisms coming from social and environmental movements and to superficially respond to the ensuing new regulations. If companies have powerful tools to resist changes and blunt the meaning of the law,...
Keyword:: legal endogeneity, diversity, social movements, and managerialization of the law
Subject:: Law and Sociology
Creator:: Buchter, Lisa Danielle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_713371 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14965

Description:: This study examines rhetorical practices through which disenfranchised women developed tenable political identities and integrated themselves into the public realm in the Pacific Northwest between 1868 and 1912. Through close analysis of rhetorical activities in which thousands of women participated--including club discourse, public commemoration, legal advocacy, petition work, and publication--it...
Keyword:: woman's rights, social movements, Washington, rhetoric, suffrage, and Oregon
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Cindy Koenig Richards
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/07/2018
Date Modified:: 09/07/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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