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The Political Economy of Declining Industries: Senescent Industry Collapse Revisited [PDF]

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One of the most robust empirical regularities in the political economy of trade is the persistence of protection. This paper explains persistent protection in terms of the interaction between industry adjustment, lobbying, and the political response ...
S. Lael Brainard, Thierry Verdier
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Firms' Green Responses to Environmental Regulations: A Three‐Dimensional Concurrent Engineering Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates companies' responses to energy efficiency policies, focusing on mandatory and voluntary regulations that create a complex landscape for businesses to navigate. Using a sample of 1473 firms across 29 European countries (2002–2018), we explore the impact of legislation on green redesign—operationalized through ...
Thomas Alexopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying [PDF]

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We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying ...
Prachi Mishra   +2 more
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Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the promotion of ESG in corporate discourse, substantive integration of ESG principles into business practices remains challenging. This study applies and extends Meadows' leverage framework to examine ESG integration in UAE‐listed firms.
M. Schulte, Dimitris Christopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Political Economy of Endogenous Growth (Revised) [PDF]

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Using an endogenous growth framework, this paper analyzes the impact of lobbying for public goods on the long run steady-state growth rate of the economy.
Mohtadi, Hamid, Roe, Terry L.
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How 1st‐Tier Suppliers Respond to Green Public Procurement Policies: An Empirical Analysis

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses how 1st‐tier suppliers to public organisations respond operationally to Green Public Procurement (GPP) policies. Through a multiple case study of 12 Italian firms operating in different sectors, we develop a classification of suppliers' responses, identifying two interrelated macro‐types: internal operations realignment ...
Antonio Cavallin Toscani, Andrea Vinelli
wiley   +1 more source

Trade lobbying works (for big firms): Evidence from the China trade war

open access: yesBusiness and Politics
Is trade lobbying effective and does its effectiveness vary across firms? Using requests for relief from China trade war tariffs, we demonstrate that lobbying for specific trade policies contributed to securing those exact policies, an elusive target in ...
Ayse Eldes, Jieun Lee, Iain Osgood
doaj   +1 more source

Lobbying and Information in Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The vast majority of papers written about interest groups ’ political in uence focuses on the role of money in politics. Business and interest groups ’ partici-pation in campaign nance, in the form of hard and soft money, has been the subject of ...
de Figueiredo, John M.
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Designing Governance for ESG: Incentive and Oversight Complementarities in Corporate Sustainability Performance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how internal governance design supports credible ESG performance by distinguishing between Incentive and Oversight Architectures. Using 13,993 firm‐year observations of US nonfinancial firms from 2018 to 2024, we estimate fixed effects and two‐step system GMM models.
Beyza Gürel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are firms' lobbying strategies universal? [PDF]

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Lobbying public decision-makers is an increasingly widespread managerial practice, but has so far attracted little research attention in Europe. This article studies how it is put into practice as a strategy by French and UK firms.
Madina Rival
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