Purpose The purpose of this article is to offer a conceptual assessment contemporary consumer boycott global sports brand. A critical commentary offered the “Boycott PUMA” campaign with an examination positions and motivations different parties involved, specifically PUMA, campaign, Israeli Football Association UEFA/FIFA. Design/methodology/approach This position paper, designed generate discus...

We study a dynamic game between a seller, a buyer (or "activist"), and a regulator. The seller decides whether to produce in a pro…t-maximizing or socially responsible way ("self-regulate"). The buyer, bene…tting from such self-regulation, decides whether to buy or not (i.e., initiate/end the "boycott"). The regulator can directly regulate production, although in a clumsy/costly way. The equili...

Public opinion polls in high income countries regularly document near universal condemnation of child labor in low income countries. Calls for consumer boycotts against products with child labor content are ubiquitous in America's universities. This essay assumes that this concern about child labor is motivated by a genuine concern for the welfare of working children. Can consumer boycotts and ...