Marketing strategists assert that environmental management is a critical marketing task. However, little attention has been given to environmental forces that actively oppose an organization's marketing policies. Protest groups often use boycotts in an attempt to coerce an organization to modify allegedly harmful marketing policies. The author proposes and tests a theory of the effectiveness of such boycotts.
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