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Wokeism

Opinion & Features

How ESG became part of America’s culture wars

A focus on social issues by big business has angered some Republicans

The bill allows Republican Ron DeSantis to appoint his own board to oversee the services provided in the theme park by Disney, which attracted the governor’s ire last year after it criticised a law banning school lessons on sexual orientation.
International

Florida takes over Disney district to punish ‘woke’ politics

FLORIDA’S governor seized control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district on Monday, hailing the end of the “corporate kingdom” as he effectively punished the entertainment giant over its “woke...

Protests in June 2022 against the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organisation in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent research at the Yale School of Management into companies’ responses to the overturning of Roe v Wade showed that these were rarely driven by the personal politics of a given boss. Instead, industry, geography, the workforce and a firm’s customer base largely determined company positions.
Columns

People trust executives to intervene in social issues

Company decisions are rarely driven by a boss’s personal positions, says management scholar

A man holds a flag of support for Donald Trump during the first re-election campaign event of Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, on Aug 16.
Columns
THE BROAD VIEW

Woke politics goes south

SOME people call it left-wing identity politics. Others call it “wokeism”. It helped elect Donald Trump president of the United States and provided convenient controversies to distract British voters ...

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