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- Title
INCORPORATING SOCIAL ACTIVISM.
- Authors
LIN, TOM C. W.
- Abstract
Corporations and their executives are at the forefront of some o f the most contentious and important social issues of our time. Through pronouncements, policies, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, and fundraising, corporations are actively engaged in issues like immigration reform, gun regulation, racial justice, gender equality, and religious freedom. This is the new reality of business and social activism in America. This Article offers the first comprehensive legal examination o f this new corporate social activism and its wide-ranging effects on law, business, and society. It begins by providing a brief history of corporations and social activism. Next, it establishes the legal and political foundations o f contemporary corporate social activism. It investigates how the convergence of government and private enterprise, the rise o f corporate social responsibility, and the expansion of corporate political rights have all fostered contemporary corporate social activism. Moving from origins to effects, it then examines the potential costs and benefits associated with this new dynamic. Finally, this Article offers pragmatic proposals for addressing the broader implications of contemporary corporate social activism on law, business, and society. Specifically, it discusses how such activism can impact corporate purpose, corporate governance, and public interest lawyering. Ultimately, this Article aspires to provide an original legal framework for thinking, speaking, and acting anew about corporate social activism in America.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL responsibility of business; FREEDOM of religion; CITIZENS United v. Federal Election Commission; ORGANIZATIONAL ideology; CORPORATE governance
- Publication
Boston University Law Review, 2018, Vol 98, Issue 6, p1535
- ISSN
0006-8047
- Publication type
Article