The rights of corporate speech : Mobil Oil and the legal development of the voice of big business / Robert L. Kerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerr, Robert L.

Series:

Law and society (New York, N.Y.)

Law and society : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobil Oil Corporation--Political activity.

Mobil Oil Corporation.

Corporate speech--United States.

Corporate speech.

Corporations--Political activity--Law and legislation--United States.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kerr analyzes how in the 1970s Mobil Oil made the The New York Times op-ed page the focus of its advocacy strategy to promote interests far beyond its immediate business objectives. Although other corporations produced advocacy messages, none spoke so regularly on so many issues of public policy as Mobil. Kerr shows how Mobil framed the corporate role in democratic processes as identical to that of the individual citizen. This was a radical assertion at the beginning of the seventies, but by the end of the decade Mobil's efforts were the ideological vanguard of an historic expansion of the right and practice of corporate speech.

Contents:

The ideology of corporate citizenship

1970-74 : beginnings of a seismic shift

1975-77 : Citizen Mobil goes its own way

1978-80 : corporate speech heads to court

Corporate speech in the '70s and beyond.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-210) and index.

ISBN:

1-59332-158-9

OCLC:

64271927