Top business executives have gotten even more Republican, study finds

  • 📰 washingtonpost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 55 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 25%
  • Publisher: 72%

Россия Новости Новости

Россия Последние новости,Россия Последние новости

From 2008 to 2020, C-suites at the country’s biggest companies grew more politically polarized, according to new research.

to cancel the special tax district of Walt Disney World in the state — a decision with billion-dollar implications for the company and the communities that surround the theme park — after the company publicly clashed with DeSantis over a Florida law limitingThe researchers defined partisanship as “the degree to which political views within the same executive team are dominated by a single party.

Part of the divide is geographic, researchers noted, with executives in Texas and Ohio becoming more Republican, and executives in California and New York becoming more Democratic.from the Pew Research Center found that Democrats and Republicans are “farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.” But the spike in political polarization among executives was more than double that of local registered voters in the same period, the study’s authors observed.

“Consumers have increasing expectations for companies to take a side,” Tsoutsoura said. “This could be because with the growing political partisanship, the political ideology of people seems to play a bigger role on how they think about their identity.

It can also weigh on corporate performances. The researchers found that executives in the political minority were more likely to leave, and that “departures of executives who are misaligned with the political views of the team’s majority are more costly for shareholders than departures of politically aligned executives.”

 

Спасибо за ваш комментарий. Ваш комментарий будет опубликован после проверки
Мы обобщили эту новость, чтобы вы могли ее быстро прочитать.Если новость вам интересна, вы можете прочитать полный текст здесь Прочитайте больше:

 /  🏆 95. in RU

Россия Последние новости, Россия Последние новости