This article explores the following research question: How is political activism expressed in connective, affective, and embodied ways, how do these modes result a rearticulation of body central activist signifiers? While connective affective dimensions digital offer invaluable insights into new forms organisation, it remains underexplored concepts “human” “rights” are discursively produced thr...

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Abstract We compare activism and takeovers from the perspective of a blockholder who can provide effort to improve firm value. show that free-riding behavior by dispersed shareholders has following implications: First, be more profitable than hostile takeover even if it is less efficient. Second, most efficient when brokers, rather substitutes for, takeovers. Third, such earns superior returns....

Although social issues have been considered by the business world for decades, these topics never gained such preponderance as in 21st century. Given great pressures brands to broaden their responsibilities towards society, brand activism emerges a new strategy companies address relevant social-political issues, assuming public stance on and taking action solve or improve them. However, not all...

Blockholder monitoring is central to corporate governance, but blockholders large enough exercise significant unilateral influence are rare. Mechanisms that enable moderately sized exert collective therefore important. Existing theory suggests engagement by unlikely, especially when the blocks held delegated asset managers who have limited skin in game. We present a model which multiple engage ...

This article--an account of an interview with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official--addresses the role of citizen activism in combating environmental decisions that may cause harm, including the sludge policy of the EPA.