Advantages & Disadvantages of Confrontational
After reading Baron’s chapter, please take two to four sentences to respond to one question (identify which).
What are advantages and disadvantages of confrontational compared to cooperative private politics for an activist group?
Baron identifies that characteristics of products, operating environments, and organizations affect the susceptibility of businesses to private politics. Which do you think is most important in determining susceptibility? Why?
What might a company do to avoid being targeted by activists with a private politics strategy? Would you advise a company to do this?
Baron notes the activist campaigns often target individual firms. Given this, do you think businesses prefer to face private politics strategies or strategies aimed at achieving public (government) policy? Why?
Business and Marketing
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of confrontational compared to cooperative, private politics for an activist group?
Advantages
Confrontation mainly focuses on social issues; hence it is easy for activists to convince people to boycott any harmful or dangerous activity; on the other hand, the cooperative private may only deal with organizations under the counter without the mass (Baron, 2001).
Confrontation makes it easier for acti...
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