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Starbucks' footprint in the United States, showing saturation of metropolitan areas. Some of the methods Starbucks has used to expand and maintain their dominant market position, including buying out competitors' leases, intentionally operating at a loss, and clustering several locations in a small geographical area (i.e., saturating the market), have been labeled anti-competitive by critics. [14]
Starbucks was sued for marketing its commitment to “100% ethical” sourcing while using some suppliers with “documented, severe human rights and labor abuses.”
Starbucks Workers United said Tuesday that 98% of union baristas have voted to authorize a strike as they seek a contract with the coffee giant.. Bargaining delegates are set to return to ...
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A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals).
Adam Barsky investigated the effects of moral disengagement and participation in unethical work behavior across two studies. [53] The research focused on moral disengagement through moral justification and displacement of responsibility and unethical behavior as deceptive behaviors such as "outright lying", and "attempts to obscure the truth". [54]
Starbucks said in emailed statement the union's move to authorize the strike was disappointing, and that it was committed to reaching a final framework agreement.
In that report, they defined reputation laundering as "the process of concealing the corrupt actions, past or present, of an individual, government or corporate entity, and presenting their character and behaviour in a positive light." [4] The phrase "reputation laundering" is a play on the older phrase "money laundering".