This paper presents a model of consumer boycotts where the discrete choices of concerned consumers are represented as a stochastic processes. We solve for the limiting distribution of the process and analyze its properties. We then discuss how the model relates to game-theoretic models of collective action and derive an equilibrium selection result. The type of equilibrium selected depends on t...

I present a model for consumer boycotts. The more a firm complies with consumers’ wishes, the higher its marginal cost, but the lower the probability of facing a consumer boycott. I show that the threat of a consumer boycott can increase the expected profits of firms. Firms lose out when they do face a boycott, but gain even more when their competitor does, giving them more market power. The st...

Several boycotts have demonstrated that stakeholders can effectively force even large companies to abandon harmful activities. However, people do not always join boycotts, in the case of severely egregious corporate behaviour. Thus, our understanding this substantive form ethical consumption is limited. To extend knowledge about process leads boycotting, study examines role trust and distrust c...

The literature on political participation asserts that protest has increased over the last four decades, all over the world. This trend is derived from surveys asking questions about participation in various forms of protest, including demonstrations, boycotts, and unofficial strikes. The latter question made sense in the context in which it was formulated, Britain in the early 1970s, and with ...

This article examines factors associated with social movements’ abilities to disrupt corporate targets. I identify two kinds of disruption: market disruption and mediated disruption. Market disruption deters the ability of the corporate target to effectively accrue and use market resources, while mediated disruption occurs as a tactic communicates a movement’s claims about the target through th...

Private politics are often introduced by market participants in the absence of public regulation. But when is private politics enough, effi cient, or better than administratively costly public regulation? We present a novel framework in which we can study the interaction between regulation, self-regulation by the firm, and boycotts by the activists in a dynamic game. Our main results are the fo...

Retailers are under pressure to utilise eco-innovation improve their operations and reduce customers boycotts as a result of the growing concerns about environmental issues. Thus, this paper examines effect (i.e., reactive eco-innovation, proactive eco-innovation) on behaviours across various cultural environments. It also explores role ethical ideology idealism, relativism) relationship. Based...