Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns - US Chamber of Commerce
Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns - US Chamber of Commerce
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Figure 1. Selected <strong>Corporate</strong> Stakeholder Relationships Used <strong>in</strong><br />
Power Structure Analysis 8<br />
circumstances, it is the ability to establish prevail<strong>in</strong>g perceptions,<br />
which may or may not be grounded <strong>in</strong> truth, that gives these<br />
campaign attacks their power.<br />
Power structure analysis is illustrated <strong>in</strong> Figure 1. In apply<strong>in</strong>g<br />
this technique, a prospective attacker locates the target company<br />
<strong>in</strong> the center <strong>of</strong> a diagram, and arrays around it all <strong>of</strong> the key<br />
stakeholder relationships upon which it depends for its success<br />
and well-be<strong>in</strong>g. These will vary, <strong>of</strong> course, from one company to<br />
the next, but will generally <strong>in</strong>clude some or all <strong>of</strong> the categories<br />
identified <strong>in</strong> the figure. Once this list is complete, the attacker<br />
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