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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Matthew Chan

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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).

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German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 12: 5Th CLPE Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Network: Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Regimes, Dialogue, Constitutionalization , 01 December 2012 , pp. 1339 - 1362
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Copyright © 2011 by German Law Journal GbR 

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