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What About Psychological Actors? Behavioral Analysis of Equator Principle Adoption and its Implications*

2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s2071832200017892

2071-8322

Matthew Chan,

Management and Organizational Studies

In 1976, MGM released Network , a satirical film about a news anchor (played by Peter Finch) so frustrated by the state of the television industry and by society in general that he couldn't stop himself from lashing out in the midst of an evening broadcast. He was “mad as hell”, and it was with this impassioned rage and his everyman sensibilities that he was determined to move the television watching nation. Nevertheless, for all his conviction, Finch's character was destined to fail. In the penultimate scene of the film, Finch is confronted by the television network's chairman of the board (played by Ned Beatty).