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A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign
Corporate activism—the progressive pursuit of social justice causes by corporations—is a growing global phenomenon. There are increasing expectations and, in many cases, demands that corporations pull off their gloves to actively confront sociopolitical issues bedeviling their communities. Emerging...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8918889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35311181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00326-7 |
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description | Corporate activism—the progressive pursuit of social justice causes by corporations—is a growing global phenomenon. There are increasing expectations and, in many cases, demands that corporations pull off their gloves to actively confront sociopolitical issues bedeviling their communities. Emerging scholarship suggests that corporate activism is influenced by various factors, including the ethical, political, and commercial orientations of corporate minds and the relative political and legal landscape within which corporations operate. Adopting a qualitative research mechanism that reflects on open-source information about relevant actors, collected from blogs, Twitter, and news sites, as complemented by a broad variety of secondary sources, this interdisciplinary research explores the theoretical suppositions of corporate activism in light of corporate intervention in Nigeria’s youth-led nationwide anti-police brutality (#EndSARS) protests of October 2020. The analysis highlights how Nigeria’s legal, political, and socioeconomic dynamics factored into the dimensions of corporate activism in that momentous social justice agitation. As a key finding, the paper observes a relatively greater tendency of tech companies to engage in the Nigerian anti-police brutality movement than firms from other sectors, and attributes this relative involvement to the seemingly greater levels of representation of young tech industry employees as victims of police brutality. This tends to ground a crucial supposition in corporate activism theory: that corporations would more likely engage social issues that affect their business. |
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spelling | pubmed-89188892022-03-14 A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign Okanga, Okanga Ogbu SN Soc Sci Original Paper Corporate activism—the progressive pursuit of social justice causes by corporations—is a growing global phenomenon. There are increasing expectations and, in many cases, demands that corporations pull off their gloves to actively confront sociopolitical issues bedeviling their communities. Emerging scholarship suggests that corporate activism is influenced by various factors, including the ethical, political, and commercial orientations of corporate minds and the relative political and legal landscape within which corporations operate. Adopting a qualitative research mechanism that reflects on open-source information about relevant actors, collected from blogs, Twitter, and news sites, as complemented by a broad variety of secondary sources, this interdisciplinary research explores the theoretical suppositions of corporate activism in light of corporate intervention in Nigeria’s youth-led nationwide anti-police brutality (#EndSARS) protests of October 2020. The analysis highlights how Nigeria’s legal, political, and socioeconomic dynamics factored into the dimensions of corporate activism in that momentous social justice agitation. As a key finding, the paper observes a relatively greater tendency of tech companies to engage in the Nigerian anti-police brutality movement than firms from other sectors, and attributes this relative involvement to the seemingly greater levels of representation of young tech industry employees as victims of police brutality. This tends to ground a crucial supposition in corporate activism theory: that corporations would more likely engage social issues that affect their business. Springer International Publishing 2022-03-14 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8918889/ /pubmed/35311181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00326-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Okanga, Okanga Ogbu A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title | A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title_full | A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title_fullStr | A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title_full_unstemmed | A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title_short | A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
title_sort | law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8918889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35311181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00326-7 |
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