The Collective Interests of Large Corporations: Social Movement Protest and the Policy-Planning Network.
Is the corporate class fractured or it is able to transcend individual interest in favor of a collective interest? I address this debate through a unique application – how large corporations respond to social movement demands. Through a statistical examination of an original database of protests, I...
| Publicado en: | Sociological Quarterly Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 389 - 422 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Summer2020
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