El Coyote Mexican Cafe, better known as El Coyote, a family restaurant, located in Los Angeles, California. The restaurant faced criticism from the pro-gay rights defenders after the manager and the owner's daughter, made a personal donation to support the California Ballot Proposition 8, which activists associated with the restaurant, not the individual. Case, it turns out, during the eight-day period from November 4, 2008, which was the day of the elections, when the vote the motion passed on November 12, 2008, which was when the manager held a public breakfast at El Coyote publicly discuss the issue.The central tension in the case revolves around how managers donation to support measures that legally defines marriage as between a man and a woman gathered at the restaurant with unwanted attention, despite the contribution separately and are not endorsed by the business. The purpose of the case, to challenge students to think about the strength of firms in the face of environmental management of the business in terms as: (i) the financing of election campaigns and election issues, and (II) activists, who can not understand all the facts. "Hide
by Brian K. Richter, Anisha George Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 17 pages. Publication Date: 09 May 2012. Prod. #: W12009-PDF-ENG
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