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    2. Activists and corporate behavior in food processing and retailing: a sequential bargaining game

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lusk, Jayson (author) and Hudson, Darren (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    USA: Western Agricultural Economics Association
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21858
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Journal Title Details:
    29(1) : 79-93
    Notes:
    "In a rather confined set of circumstances, findings indicate it is always in the best interest of the food company to comply with activists' demands. More frequently, however, there will be cases where compliance is not optimal, depending on the size of the expected effect of protest, cost of defending against protest, and the cost of protest to the activist."

    3. Business insider: The group that came in from the fringe

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lee, Thomas (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005-08-15
    Published:
    USA: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23100
    Journal Title:
    Star Tribune
    Notes:
    Interview with Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, "one of the most reviled enemies of big food companies."

    4. Farmworkers take fight to fast food

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Associated Press (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005-05-22
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27780
    Journal Title:
    St. Petersburg Times
    Notes:
    Via online issue. 3 pages., "A victory by Florida tomato pickers over Taco Bell inspires an industrywide battle."

    5. Fighting "frankenfoods:" industry opportunity structures and the efficacy of the biotech movement in western Europe

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Schurman, R. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20731
    Journal Title:
    Social Problems
    Journal Title Details:
    51(2) : 243-268
    Notes:
    Article analyzes how a new social movement against genetic engineering in agriculture managed to turn a major industry upside down. Author argues that an undertheorized aspect of external context, namely industry structures, was a primary factor.

    6. Fighting "frankenfoods:" industry opportunity structures and the efficacy of the biotech movement in western Europe

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Schurman, R. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21085
    Journal Title:
    Social Problems
    Journal Title Details:
    51(2) : 243-268
    Notes:
    Article analyzes how a new social movement against genetic engineering in agriculture managed to turn a major industry upside down. Author argues that an undertheorized aspect of external context, namely industry structures, was a primary factor.