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Another organization, Buycott.com, provides an Internet-based smart-phone application that scans Universal Product Codes and displays corporate relationships to the user. [31] "Boycotts" may be formally organized by governments as well. In reality, government "boycotts" are just a type of embargo.
An election boycott is the boycotting of an election by a group of voters, each of whom abstains from voting. Boycotting may be used as a form of political protest where voters feel that electoral fraud is likely, or that the electoral system is biased against its candidates, that the polity organizing the election lacks legitimacy, or that the candidates running are very unpopular.
Boycotts can be effective, but not in the way that consumers think, said Brayden King, a professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Yesterday's news that the Illinois state government was going to stop doing business with Bank of America if it didn't extend credit to Republic Windows & Doors made many headlines. The city of ...
Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years and rattled the foundations of ...
These have not been directed at the local government of the Commonwealth, but against the Federal Government of the United States. The first case, known as the Navy-Culebra protests , consisted of a series of protests starting in 1971 on the island of Culebra , Puerto Rico, against the United States Navy 's use of the island.
The Coca-Cola boycott began gaining traction after rumors emerged that, not only had it fired Latino employees from a Texas bottling plant, but it was reporting them to immigration officers.