Corporate
Political Activity & Political Connections
How firms engage governments, regulators, and political institutions to shape the environment in which they compete.
Research in this stream examines lobbying, campaign finance, political connections, and the firm-level consequences of political strategy.
Research Stream · 01
Working Papers & Published Research
This stream collects 53 working papers and published research papers contributed by community members. Each links to the source.
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7 Entries
The Privileged Rushed In?
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CEO Activism, Consumer Polarization, and Firm Performance
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Increased Risk in Financial Performance and Political Strategy: An Integrated Strategy Perspective
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The Effect of Home-Country Culture on Cross-Border Nonmarket Strategy: Egalitarianism and Lobbying in the United States
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Is U.S. Formalized Lobbying More about Nefarious Corruption or Benign Industry Information Provision? Evidence from Foreign Firms Lobbying in the U.S.
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Identifying a Fundamental Source of the Liability of Foreignness: Evidence from Lobbying Fees Charged to Foreign Firms
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The Effect of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign Firm Political Strategy
Publications
46 Entries
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity
2023
Does Location Matter for Winning Government Contracts? An Examination of Us Defense Awards
2022
Intellectual Property Rights, Non-Market Considerations and Foreign R&D Investments
2021
Positive Institutional Changes Through Peace: The Relative Effects of Peace Agreements and Non-Market Capabilities on FDI
2021
Risk Is Relative: Heterogeneous Responses to Institutional Risks for Foreign Investment
2021
The Role of International Anti-Corruption Regulations in Promoting Socially Responsible Practices
2021
Reexamining Investor Reaction to Covert Corporate Political Activity: A Replication and Extension of Werner (2017)
2021
Cleaning House Before Hosting New Guests: A Political Path Dependence Model of Political Connection Adaptation in the Aftermath of Anticorruption Shocks
2021
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices
2021
Citizens’ Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy
2020
Changes in Firms’ Political Investment Opportunities, Managerial Accountability, and Reputational Risk
2019
Managing Policy Reversals: Consequences for Firm Performance
2019
Contesting Commercialization: Political Influence, Responsive Authoritarianism, and Cultural Resistance
2019
How Do Firms Feel About Participation by Their Peers in the Regulatory Design Process? An Online Survey Experiment Testing the Substantive Change and Spillover Mechanisms
2019
Is Your Playing Field Unleveled? U.S. Defense Contracts and Foreign Firm Lobbying
2019
Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam
2018
The "Make and/or Buy" Decisions of Corporate Political Lobbying: An Integration of Economic Efficiency and Legitimacy Perspectives
2018
Firm Non-Market Capabilities and the Effect of Supranational Institutional Safeguards on the Location Choice of International Investments
2018
The Conditional Nature of Political Risk: How Home Institutions Influence the Location of Foreign Direct Investment
2018
How Do Firm Political Connections Impact Foreign Acquisitions? The Effects of Decision Makers’ Political and Firm Embeddedness
2018
Status Climbing vs. Bridging: Multinational Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
2017
The Dynamics of Political Embeddedness in China
2017
Political Hazards and Firms’ Geographic Concentration
2017
The Danger of Not Listening to Firms: Government Responsiveness and the Goal of Regulatory Compliance
2017
Policy Risk, Strategic Decisions, and Contagion Effects: Firm-Specific Considerations
2017
Non-Market Strategy Research Through the Lens of New Institutional Economics: An Integrative Review and Future Directions
2017
The Flexible Few: Oligarchs and Wealth Defense in Developing Democracies
2017
Investor Reaction to Covert Corporate Political Activity
2017
Campaign Contributions from Corporate Executives in Lieu of Political Action Committees
2016
Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists’ Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity
2016
Frame or Get Framed: The Critical Role of Issue Framing in Nonmarket Management
2016
Political Strategy and Market Capabilities: Evidence from the Chinese Private Sector
2015
Citizens United, Independent Expenditures, and Agency Costs: Reexamining the Political Economy of State Antitakeover Statutes
2015
Gaining Access by Doing Good: The Effect of Sociopolitical Reputation on Firm Participation in Public Policymaking
2015
The Structure of Political Institutions and Effectiveness of Corporate Political Lobbying
2014
Perverse Complementarity: Political Connections & the Use of Courts Among Private Firms in China
2014
Are Collective and Private Political Actions Substitutes or Complements? Empirical Evidence from China’s Private Sector
2014
Institutions Sans Frontières: International Agreements and Foreign Investment
2013
Thinking Ahead: Government Time Horizons and the Legalization of International Investment Agreements
2012
Secure Property as a Bottom-Up Process: Firms, Stakeholders, and Predators in Weak States
2012
Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business
2011
The Sound, the Fury, and the Nonevent: Business Power and Market Reactions to the Citizens United Decision
2011
Laws of Attraction: Regulatory Arbitrage in the Face of Activism in Right-to-Work States
2009
Where Is Credit Due? Legal Institutions, Connections, and the Efficiency of Bank Lending in Vietnam
2008
Corporate Governance as Political Insurance: Firm-Level Institutional Creation in Emerging Markets and Beyond
2007
Capitalists of All Russia, Unite! Business Mobilization Under Debilitated Dirigisme