Using a unique database on social movement boycotts of corporations, we examine how firms alter their political activities in the wake of a reputational threat. We show that boycotts lead to significant reductions in the amount of targets’ political action committee campaign contributions and simultaneous increases in targets’ CEOs’ personal campaign contributions, as well as targets’ lobbying ...

Abstract Boycotts, shunning, and shaming sometimes wrong their targets by offering corrupt incentives that undermine significant individual aims. These tactics unjustly harm when they aim to impede living authentically, deterring them from declaring beliefs in public or pursuing important projects. They are because make willing participants these harms. subvert targets’ ambitions not allow mone...

This paper models strategic interactions between non-identical duopolistic firms and a public interest / environmental organization (EO) that promotes "green" production practices by threatening consumer boycotts against "brown" producers. The paper describes when boycotts are deterred by prior firm commitments to be "green" and, alternately, when a boycott arises in equilibrium, despite symmet...

Consumer boycotts are triggered by egregious events, but the literature has not distinguished the level of egregiousness from consumers’ preferences or disutility associated with a given level of egregiousness, nor has the literature studied how these two components of egregiousness affect boycott intensity. We provide a model of market-level boycotts that distinguishes the two egregiousness co...

Over the past several years those who are opposed to some of the policies of the Israeli government, or even to the existence of the State, have proposed an academic boycott of Israel as one of the weapons in their campaign. In this article I want to consider whether the use of this weapon can be justified. In all moral discourse questions about justification have to be universalisable, so to d...

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem? In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce the incidenc...