Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target

In this study of the impact of protests against Walmart (a first entrant) on Target (a second entrant) from 1998 to 2008 in U. S. geographic markets, we develop and test a theory of information spillovers from protests against corporations proposing to enter a new market. We argue that the number of...

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Published in:Administrative science quarterly 2013-12, Vol.58 (4), p.669-701
Main Authors: Yue, Lori Qingyuan, Rao, Hayagreeva, Ingram, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Activists
Business structures
Communities
Companies
Corporations
Decentralization
Demonstrations & protests
Department Stores
Discount department stores
Discounts
Impact analysis
Indigenous knowledge
Information science
Labor protests
Local Knowledge
Management theory
Market
Market entry
Markets
Modeling
Political protests
Prone
Protestantism
Residential preferences
Retail industries
Retail stores
Social movements
Spillovers
Studies
Superstores
Traditional knowledge
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