Market Basket started as a local grocery store in Lowell, Massachusetts 1917, and rapidly expanded into large supermarket chain by following business model driven community empowerment. However, success did not come easy. A sudden change leadership the resulting top-down organizational culture pushed unprecedented chaos with boycotts supply disruptions. The collective force generated employees,...

Abstract We examine how political conflicts affect trade, using both the Goldstein score that scales all daily worldwide and firm-country-product level data of Chinese imports. find reduce imports in general. Specifically, (i) State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are most reduced, effects mostly fall on intermediate goods while not so much capital goods; (ii) foreign-invested (FIEs) less negatively a...

The Black Swan theory of events is an incident that deviates beyond what normally expected a situation and extremely difficult to predict (Talib, 2007). impact the hospitality industry in many ways. Weather, widespread illness, civil unrest, terrorism, loss utilities are out immediate control industry’s participants but their results. Occurrences at property/corporate level can also performance...

This study explored one of the less studied types conspiracy theories, namely those concerned with business, organisations and industry. In all, 400 participants completed a 60-item questionnaire which covered number areas such as dishonest advertising, bribery corruption. Given opportunity to respond “don’t know”, large (>25%) responded that way very specific questions. Overall, it seemed cons...

COVID-19 has brought to the fore violence faced by slaughterhouse workers and those they are charged with slaughtering. This article argues that wrought an acceleration of slow state organized race crime (Nixon, Ward), in spreading rapidly through surrounding racialized communities. We show zoonotic pandemics result crime, abattoirs locations inseparable animal racial violence. then analyse how...

Brands increasingly take a stance on political issues, whereas consumers choose to either support brand by buying their products (“buycotting”), or turn away from (“boycotting”) for reasons. While buycotts can be understood as rewarding and cooperative form of mostly individual behavior, boycotts are conflict-oriented collective punishment. Even though research has acknowledged these conceptual...