Have Faith in Business: Nestlé, Religious Shareholders, and the Politicization of the Church in the Long 1970s
研究了1970年代雀巢如何应对宗教活动家在国家和国际层面的施压，通过建立对话平台、制定教会去政治化指南以及应对股东年会上的宗教股东，最终将宗教讨论引向小规模伦理问题和商业自我监管，而非资本主义体系改革。
During the 1970s, religious activists were heavily involved in national and international campaigns against multinationals and urged firms to adapt their behavior to align with Christian ethics. This article analyzes the strategies of Nestlé in addressing religious activism at three levels: national, international, and organizational. The analysis examines Nestlé’s collaboration with other Swiss and European multinationals and high-ranking church representatives in establishing dialogue platforms that sought to improve mutual understanding and promote tolerance for global capitalism. Nestlé also contributed to the creation of guidelines for the main churches in Switzerland that were aimed at their partial depoliticization. When Nestlé’s executives faced religious shareholder activists during its shareholders’ annual general meetings, they chose to engage with them to avoid their radicalization, although most of their demands ultimately remained unanswered. Overall, Nestlé contributed to the reorientation of religious discussions to small-scale ethical problems and business self-regulation rather than to substantial reforms of the capitalist economic system.