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Motivations for Corporate Political Activity
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015Abstract Campaign contributions are typically seen as a strategic investment for firms; recent empirical evidence, however, has shown few connections between firms’ contributions and regulatory or performance improvements, prompting researchers to explore agency-based explanations for corporate politics. By studying intrafirm campaign
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The End of Corporate Political Activity
Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society, 2020Corporate political activity (CPA) is one of the most prolific academic literatures which examines the political behaviors of corporations. CPA researchers often define it as a non-market strategy which corporations can engage in to influence political outcomes that complement their market objectives.
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Is Corporate Political Activity a Field?
Business & Society, 2016This article focuses upon answering the following question: Does corporate political activity (CPA) stand as an academic field? Following Hambrick and Chen, we consider three elements of the emergence of an academic field—differentiation, mobilization, and legitimacy. Utilizing a variety of data sources, we find CPA to be well differentiated from other
Douglas A. Schuler +2 more
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California Management Review, 1982
Corporate political involvement in the formulation and determination of the nation's public agenda is inevitable, given the role and importance of large corporations and private enterprise in the American economy. "Positive" corporate political activism is the recognition by a corporation of the "public interest" and the development of strategies ...
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Corporate political involvement in the formulation and determination of the nation's public agenda is inevitable, given the role and importance of large corporations and private enterprise in the American economy. "Positive" corporate political activism is the recognition by a corporation of the "public interest" and the development of strategies ...
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF CORPORATE POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Management and Business Review, 2023Vikas Mittal and Jihye Jung provide evidence-based guidance and a strategic framework for senior executives to mitigate the downside of engaging in corporate political activism.
Vikas Mittal, Jihye Jung
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Is Corporate Political Activity Worth it? Market Returns on Corporate Political Investments
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012While a common belief is that firms’ political activities improve their financial performance, empirical studies have not consistently borne this out.
Michael Hadani, Douglas A Schuler
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Activity is Not Strategy: Reconceptualizing Corporate Political Activity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014The interaction of business with politics is a ‘big strategy’ (Whittington, 2012) phenomenon. Political activities of firms have consequences not only for firms, but also for democratic systems. But little is known about impact of corporate political activity on either firms or society.
Vivek Kumar, Munish Kumar Thakur
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American Political Science Review, 2000
Corporate political activity is usually operationalized and analyzed as financial contributions to candidates or political parties through political action committees (PACs). Very little attention has been paid to other dimensions, such as lobbying, in a systematic way. On a theoretical level we address the issue of how to conceive of PAC contributions,
Wendy L. Hansen, Neil J. Mitchell
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Corporate political activity is usually operationalized and analyzed as financial contributions to candidates or political parties through political action committees (PACs). Very little attention has been paid to other dimensions, such as lobbying, in a systematic way. On a theoretical level we address the issue of how to conceive of PAC contributions,
Wendy L. Hansen, Neil J. Mitchell
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Democratizing Corporate Political Activity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Corporate political activity raises a hard and important question for corporate law: who decides when the corporation should speak and what it should say? In several cases, the Supreme Court has provided a clear answer: shareholders, acting through the procedures of corporate democracy.
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2015
The creation and preservation of competitive advantage remains the central concern of strategic managers (Lawton et al., 2013). Throughout this book, the contributors argue that in the modern world economy, the competitive advantage of a company is determined as much by its non-market strategy as it is by its market engagement. Following on Chapter 7’s
John, A., Rajwani, T.S., Lawton, T.C.
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The creation and preservation of competitive advantage remains the central concern of strategic managers (Lawton et al., 2013). Throughout this book, the contributors argue that in the modern world economy, the competitive advantage of a company is determined as much by its non-market strategy as it is by its market engagement. Following on Chapter 7’s
John, A., Rajwani, T.S., Lawton, T.C.
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