The role of corporate political strategies in M&As

Responding to Rueda’s questions, this essay explains the political-strategic approach (PSA) to populism and highlights its analytical strengths, which have become even more important with the emergence of populist governments across the world. PSA identifies populism’s core by emphasizing the central role of personalistic leaders who tend to operate in opportunistic ways, rather than consistently pursuing programmatic or ideological orientations. PSA is especially useful nowadays, when scholars’ most urgent task is to elucidate the political strategies of populist chief executives and their problematic repercussions, especially populism’s threat to democracy.

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Corporate Political Strategies in Weak Institutional Environments: A Break from Conventions

Journal of Business Ethics ◽

10.1007/s10551-019-04342-1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 161 (4) ◽

pp. 855-876

Author(s):

Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong ◽

Daniel Aghanya ◽

Tazeeb Rajwani

Keyword(s):

Resource Dependency ◽

Emerging Countries ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Political Activity ◽

Dark Side ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Corporate Political Activity ◽

Corporate Political Strategies ◽

Shed Light ◽

Universal Application

Abstract There is a lack of research about the political strategies used by firms in emerging countries, mainly because the literature often assumes that Western-oriented corporate political activity (CPA) has universal application. Drawing on resource-dependency logics, we explore why and how firms orchestrate CPA in the institutionally challenging context of Nigeria. Our findings show that firms deploy four context-fitting but ethically suspect political strategies: affective, financial, pseudo-attribution and kinship strategies. We leverage this understanding to contribute to CPA in emerging countries by arguing that corporate political strategies are shaped by the reciprocity and duality of dependency relationships between firms and politicians, and also by advancing that these strategies reflect institutional weaknesses and unique industry-level opportunities. Importantly, we shed light on the muttered dark side of CPA. We develop a CPA framework and discuss the research, practical and policy implications of our findings.

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Patronage and Power: The Vicereines at the Court of Naples in the Reign of Philip III of Spain

Renaissance and Reformation ◽

10.33137/rr.v43i4.36386 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 149-170

Author(s):

Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

Keyword(s):

Family Members ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Political Network ◽

Political Contribution ◽

Kingdom Of Naples

Recently, several studies have focused on the figure of the viceroy in the Spanish Monarchy, especially in the Kingdom of Naples. However, far less attention has been paid to the role of the vicereines of Naples. The goal of my study is to investigate and clarify the significant roles held by these noblewomen at one of the most important viceregal courts of the Spanish Monarchy. I will focus on one vicereine in particular, Catalina de Zúñiga y Sandoval, 6th Countess of Lemos and sister to the Duke of Lerma (1599–1601), who developed an extensive political network through copious correspondences, requesting and distributing mercedes (dignities and favours) among family members and her clientage. A revisionary analysis of the vicereines’ roles at the Neapolitan court demonstrates how knowledge of their political contribution is essential for a deeper understanding of the economic and political strategies deployed by their families.

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We Fear Villains

Public Characters ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190050047.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 123-147

Author(s):

James M. Jasper ◽

Michael P. Young ◽

Elke Zuern

Keyword(s):

Activity Levels ◽

Collective Identities ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Urgent Action ◽

Sense Of Urgency

This chapter presents villains as part of a typology of primary characters including heroes, villains, victims, and minions. Within this framework, villains are bad and powerful. They can be cruel, arrogant, greedy, hypocritical, sacrilegious. They are also secretive. This heightens people’s sense of urgency in stopping them, generates collective identities forged against the evil outsiders, and places god-fearing citizens in the role of protective heroes prepared for sacrifice. People construct villains for the powerful emotions they inspire in audiences who fear and hate them. They focus blame, transforming anxiety and frustration into indignation and purpose. Demonizing opponents is one of the oldest political strategies, and still plays a role in politics today. Character workers exaggerate their opponents’ strength, malevolence, and activity levels. They may be either superhuman or subhuman, but urgent action is required to thwart them. They are always busy, looking for weaknesses.

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Corporate Political Strategies and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)

International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences ◽

10.4018/ijsds.2016040101 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Bernardo Meyer ◽

Victor Meyer Jr.

Keyword(s):

Political Action ◽

Home Country ◽

Single Case ◽

International Markets ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Competitive Strategies ◽

Engineering Company ◽

Data Collection And Analysis ◽

Corporate Political Strategies

Management literature is replete with cases of companies that use competitive strategies in the markets in which they operate. However, organizational success often depends on other variables, such as political action, which has been neglected in more detailed studies in strategy literature in general. Researchers such as Epstein (1969), Mizruchi (1992), Schuler (1996), Hillman and Hitt (1999), Blumentritt (2003), Boddewyn (2003), Hadani (2007) and Tian, Hafsi & Wu (2009) have stressed the importance of political strategies, claiming that organizational decisions and actions are influenced in practice by them. In the competitive international markets corporations use political strategies to influence stakeholders in order to conquer segments of the market that they focus on and also to prevent from other adverse interests. In this context, home country governments also assist domestic MNC's international ventures using their state owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper aims to examine the political strategies practiced by a Brazilian multinational engineering company in its international operations in its dealings with home country state owned enterprises. The methodology employed was the single case study, using a qualitative approach for data collection and analysis at a large Brazilian multinational engineering company. The findings revealed that political strategies directed at SOEs from home governments are critical to a company's internationalization process.

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Corporate political strategies in Europe: The determinants of firms' access to the European Commission

Business and Politics ◽

10.1017/bap.2019.15 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 307-338

Author(s):

Amanda M. Alves

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

Negative Binomial Regression ◽

Political Knowledge ◽

Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽

The European Union ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Binomial Regression ◽

Political Environments ◽

Corporate Political Strategies

AbstractCorporate political strategies have been used extensively by firms attempting to shape their political environments. In this context, access to targeted policymakers is essential to allow their deployment. Thus, we propose to study the determinants of access to the European Commission representatives. This research builds on the resource-based view (RBV) of firms to argue that political knowledge is a valuable resource to increase firms' degree of access to the European Commission. To test our hypotheses, we built a novel dataset merging firms characteristics with lobbying meetings information, and analyze it through negative binomial regression. The results suggest the importance of political knowledge, emphasizing that it may represent a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This study highlights interesting information that broadens the understanding of corporate political strategies in the European Union.

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