Corporate Political Activity as a Competitive Strategy
Author | : Kenneth Douglas Cory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kenneth Douglas Cory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Thomas C. Lawton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199604754 |
The book outlines how companies should synchronize competitive strategies with extant strategies for social engagement and political and regulatory activism in order to build and sustain business success.
Author | : Barry M. Mitnick |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1993-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0803943490 |
How do business firms decide on their strategies for political advocacy? What agents do they use to influence the business and governmental environments? Should a corporation use an outside agent such as a trade association or rely on an in-house public affairs manager? This book represents the first-ever comprehensive overview of the burgeoning phenomenon of corporate political agency. Beginning with the basic theoretical concerns of understanding the competitive nature of the democratic system, this collection moves on to the practical considerations of whether the various chosen forms of public affairs activity actually work as intended.
Author | : Katherine M. Gehl |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1633699242 |
Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation.
Author | : Vivek Kumar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The 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. The many studies which have studied business politics interaction are overall inconclusive. In this essay we argue that the lack of understanding stems from inappropriate conceptualization and incorrect usage of corporate political activity as a theoretical concept. In this essay we argue that the understanding of corporate political participation can be improved by distinguishing between two related but distinct concepts: corporate political activity, and corporate political strategy. Denoting a set of activities as political activities is not as useful for Strategic Organization research as it may be in Sociology or Political Science. We argue that corporate political strategy might be a more useful conceptualization making political actions of corporations amenable to study in ways King & Walker (2014) called for.
Author | : Hao Ma |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136586237 |
This book is about how Chinese entrepreneurs deal with China’s most important institution-the government-in their struggle to survive and even prosper in China’s transitional economy. It takes an "inside look" at several private firms in China and provides a first-hand account, as well as the underlying rationale and decision considerations, of their corporate political strategy. The book is based firmly on solid academic research but actually written with both practitioners and scholars in mind. It offers candid and insightful quotes and observations from the owners and executives of China’s private firms with regards to their dealing with the government. This book advances a typology of corporate political strategies based on the respective motivations of the business (the entrepreneurs and their firms) and the government (the government institutions and individual officials) as well as the modes of their interactions. Eight different types of political strategies by China’s private firms are identified and illustrated with real-life examples, ranging from one-night-stand, situational shopper, good ole friend, patronage seeker, model volunteer, institutional improviser, direct participator, to red hat insider. The book also dissects a living case and traces the development of one particular private firm, from its humble start-up to present day glory, which fittingly illustrates the evolution and dynamics of the various types of political strategies the firm employed at different stages of its growth. For anyone who wants to understand China’s private firms and the Chinese government, thus be able to deal with them more effectively, this book is a must-read.
Author | : Peter A. Gourevitch |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2010-06-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400837014 |
Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.
Author | : Maxwell Olokundun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783656870944 |
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: B, language: English, abstract: The main focus of the resource based theory of a firm is the acquisition of sustainable competitive advantage over other firms in the industry (Olalla, 1999). The uniqueness of a firm's resources is considered as the basis for the strategic competitive edge achieved by the firm (Acedo, Barroso, and Galan, 2006). The concept of corporate politics also suggest that individuals express political behaviour targeted at acquiring power or a competitive edge over other individuals aimed at achieving personal or group interests within an organization (Vigoda, 2000). Thus this study seeks to explore a possible linkage between the themes of the resource based theory and the expression of political behaviours within a firm.
Author | : Donatella Della Porta |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199678405 |
The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.
Author | : סולומון מנדלכרן |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1010 |
Release | : 1897 |
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