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The New Role Of Corporate Social Responsibility In The Digital Age, Isaac Grebisz

Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement

In 2018, Nike, Inc. and Colin Kaepernick released the ad “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Within hours, the ad went viral, angering some while drawing praise from many others. This act marked an inflection point in the conventional wisdom of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Historically, firms steered away from engaging in highly controversial political issues. However, today, as political leadership declines and polarization plagues the government, corporations must change how they behave. Three influencing factors to this new corporate behavior are: 1) the increased value and fragility of a firm's reputation, 2) the increased availability of …

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Charisma's Triumph Over Organization: Peronism Throughout The Decades, Alyssa Dipadova

Student Symposium

“A party’s organization characteristics depend more upon its history, i.e. on how the organization orientated and how it consolidated…[e]very organization bears the mark of its formation, of the crucial political-administrative decision made by its founders, the decision which ‘molded’ the organization." The validity (or maybe the potency/breadth) of this idea when applied to Peronism is the main topic for this paper. The importance of this topic cannot be understated as the Partido Justicialista (PJ), the largest component of the Peronist movement, continues to be one of the most prevalent parties in Argentina’s two-party system--the other being the UCR. How did …

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