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StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations

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dc.contributor.authorLechterman, Theodore
dc.contributor.authorJenkins, Ryan
dc.contributor.authorStrawser, Bradley
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-24T14:41:13Z
dc.date.available2025-02-24T14:41:13Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-25
dc.description.abstractIn July 2020, more than 1,000 companies that advertise on social media platforms withdrew their business, citing failures of the platforms (especially Facebook) to address the proliferation of harmful content. The #StopHateForProfit movement invites reflection on an understudied topic: the ethics of boycotting by corporations. Under what conditions is corporate boycotting permissible, required, supererogatory, or forbidden? Although value-driven consumerism has generated significant recent discussion in applied ethics, that discussion has focused almost exclusively on the consumption choices of individuals. As this article underscores, value-driven consumerism by business corporations complicates these issues and invites further examination. We propose principles for the ethics of boycotting by corporations, indicate how these principles relate to different CSR paradigms, and show how these insights can help assess recent instances of corporate boycotting.
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dc.identifier.citationLechterman, T.M., Jenkins, R. & Strawser, B.J. #StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations. J Bus Ethics 191, 77–91 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05415-y
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05415-y
dc.identifier.issn1573-0697
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3594
dc.journal.titleJournal of Business Ethics
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final91
dc.page.initial77
dc.page.total14
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Humanities
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed
dc.subject.keywordBoycotts
dc.subject.keywordCSR
dc.subject.keywordEthical consumerism
dc.subject.keywordCorporate activism
dc.subject.keywordSocial media
dc.subject.keywordDemocratic legitimacy
dc.titleStopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations
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dc.volume.number191
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