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Author Halbert, Terry, author

Title Coke in Kerala / Terry Halbert
Published London : NeilsonJournals Publishing, 2006

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series SAGE Knowledge. Cases
SAGE Knowledge. Cases
Summary In March 2004, Coca-Cola suspended production at its $12 million bottling plant in Kerala, southern India. The plant had become the focus of an around-the-clock protest by local citizens, who noticed that the water in their wells had either dried up or become polluted within months of the plant's opening. They were joined first by local and eventually by global activists concerned about resource privatization on a larger scale. As the controversy snowballed, figuring persistently in print and online media, the local governing authority, which had initially welcomed the plant, refused to renew its license. Even state government, normally supportive of foreign investment, became part of the vortex of forces aligned against Coca-Cola, and the company finds itself caught in a web of legal, strategic and ethical challenges. Rather than resenting the deepening crisis primarily from the perspective of corporate management, this case study offers a wholistic narrative, with first-person accounts from a wide array of stakeholders
Notes Originally Published InHalbert, T. (2006). Coke in Kerala. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 3(1), 119-142. JBEE3-0CS1
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Subject Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (U.S.)
SUBJECT Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (U.S.) fast
Subject Soft drink industry -- Environmental aspects -- India -- Kerala -- Case studies
Soft drink industry -- Environmental aspects
India -- Kerala
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526460509
1526460505