Rethinking Consumer Boycotts

Last September, executives from Arla Foods amba, the Danish dairy giant, probably paid scant attention to a series of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. Six months later, they learned a hard lesson about religion and commerce. Arla executives watched their annual sales in the...

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Published in:MIT Sloan management review 2006-07, Vol.47 (4), p.6
Main Author: Richard Ettenson, N. Craig Smith, Jill Klein, Andrew John
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Religion
Sales
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