Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?

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Autor(a) principal: Plath, Carolin
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39906
Resumo: In the past decade corporations have increasingly engaged in social activism, even if it does not relate to their core business. Similarly, CEOs have used their influence to publicly address social issues, such as public policy decisions. Therefore, this paper examines the questions which companies engage in social activism, specifically LGBTQ+ activism. Since CEOs have been more vocal, Upper-Echelon Theory, which states that the values and characteristics of CEOs affect the way an organization behaves, served as the motivation for the research design. The paper looks at LGBTQ+ activism in the form of tweets as the dependent variable, made by the companies in the S&P 500 between 2012 and 2019, in relation to the CEOs leading them. Their age, gender, ethnicity, and political orientation served as the demographic characteristics described in Upper Echelon Theory and as the independent variables tested. The analysis revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between corporate LGBTQ+ activism and liberal CEOs, revealing that the personal politics of the CEOs are an indication for which companies are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism. Due to the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans in US politics as well as the partisan approach to social issues this provides insight into where corporate and CEO activism might be headed.
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spelling Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?LGBTQ+ activismUpper – echelon theoryCorporate activismCEO activismCEO ideologyCEO political orientationCEO genderCEO ageCEO ethnicityAtivismo LGBTQ+Teoria upper – echelonAtivismo corporativoIdeologia CEOOrientação política de CEOsGénero de CEOsIdade de CEOsEtnia de CEOsDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoIn the past decade corporations have increasingly engaged in social activism, even if it does not relate to their core business. Similarly, CEOs have used their influence to publicly address social issues, such as public policy decisions. Therefore, this paper examines the questions which companies engage in social activism, specifically LGBTQ+ activism. Since CEOs have been more vocal, Upper-Echelon Theory, which states that the values and characteristics of CEOs affect the way an organization behaves, served as the motivation for the research design. The paper looks at LGBTQ+ activism in the form of tweets as the dependent variable, made by the companies in the S&P 500 between 2012 and 2019, in relation to the CEOs leading them. Their age, gender, ethnicity, and political orientation served as the demographic characteristics described in Upper Echelon Theory and as the independent variables tested. The analysis revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between corporate LGBTQ+ activism and liberal CEOs, revealing that the personal politics of the CEOs are an indication for which companies are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism. Due to the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans in US politics as well as the partisan approach to social issues this provides insight into where corporate and CEO activism might be headed.Na última década, as empresas têm-se empenhado cada vez mais no ativismo social, mesmo que não se relacione com o objetivo principal do seu negócio. De igual modo, os CEOs têm usado a sua influência para responder publicamente a assuntos do foro social, tais como decisões de políticas públicas. Assim, esta tese examina as questões com as quais as empresas lidam, em relação ao ativismo social, especificamente o ativismo LGBTQ+. Desde que os CEOs se tornaram mais vocais, a teoria Upper-Echelon – que afirma que os valores e caraterísticas dos CEOs afetam a forma como uma organização se comporta – serviu de motivação para o design da pesquisa. Este documento olha para o ativismo LGBTQ+ na forma de tweets, como variável dependente, feitos pelas empresas no S&P 500, entre 2012 e 2019, e em relação aos CEOs que as lideram. A sua idade, género, etnia, e orientação política serviram como as caraterísticas demográficas descritas na teoria Upper-Echelon, e como as variáveis independentes testadas. A análise revelou que existe uma relação positiva significativa entre o ativismo LGBTQ+ corporativo e CEOs liberais, revelando que as políticas pessoais dos dirigentes constituem um fator indicativo de que as empresas são mais prováveis de se empenhar no ativismo LGBTQ+. Devido à divergência cada vez maior entre o Partido Democrático e o Partido Republicano nas políticas dos Estados Unidos, bem como a abordagem partidária a assuntos sociais, tal fornece uma observação sobre onde o ativismo corporativo e de CEO se estará a dirigir.Elnayal, Omar Salaheldin Ahmed NabihVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaPlath, Carolin2023-01-18T08:56:46Z2020-10-1520202020-10-15T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39906TID:202531503enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-12T17:45:28Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/39906Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:32:40.955340Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
spellingShingle Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
Plath, Carolin
LGBTQ+ activism
Upper – echelon theory
Corporate activism
CEO activism
CEO ideology
CEO political orientation
CEO gender
CEO age
CEO ethnicity
Ativismo LGBTQ+
Teoria upper – echelon
Ativismo corporativo
Ideologia CEO
Orientação política de CEOs
Género de CEOs
Idade de CEOs
Etnia de CEOs
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
title_full Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
title_fullStr Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
title_full_unstemmed Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
title_sort Which corporations are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism?
author Plath, Carolin
author_facet Plath, Carolin
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Elnayal, Omar Salaheldin Ahmed Nabih
Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Plath, Carolin
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv LGBTQ+ activism
Upper – echelon theory
Corporate activism
CEO activism
CEO ideology
CEO political orientation
CEO gender
CEO age
CEO ethnicity
Ativismo LGBTQ+
Teoria upper – echelon
Ativismo corporativo
Ideologia CEO
Orientação política de CEOs
Género de CEOs
Idade de CEOs
Etnia de CEOs
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic LGBTQ+ activism
Upper – echelon theory
Corporate activism
CEO activism
CEO ideology
CEO political orientation
CEO gender
CEO age
CEO ethnicity
Ativismo LGBTQ+
Teoria upper – echelon
Ativismo corporativo
Ideologia CEO
Orientação política de CEOs
Género de CEOs
Idade de CEOs
Etnia de CEOs
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description In the past decade corporations have increasingly engaged in social activism, even if it does not relate to their core business. Similarly, CEOs have used their influence to publicly address social issues, such as public policy decisions. Therefore, this paper examines the questions which companies engage in social activism, specifically LGBTQ+ activism. Since CEOs have been more vocal, Upper-Echelon Theory, which states that the values and characteristics of CEOs affect the way an organization behaves, served as the motivation for the research design. The paper looks at LGBTQ+ activism in the form of tweets as the dependent variable, made by the companies in the S&P 500 between 2012 and 2019, in relation to the CEOs leading them. Their age, gender, ethnicity, and political orientation served as the demographic characteristics described in Upper Echelon Theory and as the independent variables tested. The analysis revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between corporate LGBTQ+ activism and liberal CEOs, revealing that the personal politics of the CEOs are an indication for which companies are likely to engage in LGBTQ+ activism. Due to the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans in US politics as well as the partisan approach to social issues this provides insight into where corporate and CEO activism might be headed.
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