The Corporate Boomerang: Shareholder Transnational Advocacy Networks Targeting Oil Companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon

被引:32
作者
McAteer, Emily [1 ]
Pulver, Simone [1 ]
机构
[1] Brown Univ, Watson Inst Int Studies, Providence, RI 02912 USA
关键词
SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; HUMAN-RIGHTS; OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES; ECO-POLITICS; ACTIVISM; GLOBALIZATION; MOVEMENTS; BUSINESS; INDUSTRY; EUROPE;
D O I
10.1162/glep.2009.9.1.1
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Transnational advocacy networks (TANs) targeting corporations differ from those targeting states in the strategies they employ, determinants of network effectiveness, and assessments of goal achievement. This article develops a corporate boomerang model to analyze the dynamics of corporate-focused TANs. The model is used to assess two case studies of corporate-focused TANs-targeting the US-based oil corporations Chevron and Burlington Resources-active in Ecuador's Amazon region. In both TANs, corporate shareholder activists played a central role in the networks. The comparison demonstrates that the success of the Burlington TAN relative to the Chevron TAN can be explained by differences in the cohesiveness of the two networks and in the vulnerability of the two targets.
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