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Anti-corporate lobbying refers to campaigning or action against corporations, usually by civil society groups and NGOs. It is based on the idea that corporations’ role in society and their influence over both public policy and social issues – including labor standards and environmental issues – are disproportionately large. Multinational corporations in particular are an important target of anti-corporate lobbying and activism, as the effects of their operations often transcend national boundaries.
There are two main forms of anti-corporate lobbying. The first is lobbying against corporate power in general, whereby groups campaign against the increased role of companies overall and their influence over social issues through their operations, including supply chains and production practices. The second is lobbying more specifically against corporate lobbying and influence on public policy and regulation– one particular way in which this corporate power can show itself. This...
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Further Reading
Briscoe, F., & Gupta, A. (2016). Social activism in and around organizations. The Academy of Management Annals, 10(1), 671–727.
Oluwole, F. (2019). Getting past the lobby! The Alliance for lobbying transparency and ethics regulation (ALTER-EU). In D. Dialer & M. Richter (Eds.), Lobbying in the European Union (pp. 291–304). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Soule, S. A. (2018). Social movements and their impact on business and management. In Oxford research encyclopedia of business and management (pp. 1–15). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.143.
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Colli, F. (2021). Anti-corporate Lobbying. In: Harris, P., Bitonti, A., Fleisher, C.S., Skorkjær Binderkrantz, A. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_148-1
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