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Domain Maintenance as an Objective of Business Political Activity: An Expanded Typology
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In this paper, the authors incorporate the political objective of domain maintenance into the existing typology of the strategic objectives of environmental management, and incorporate it into the framework of domain defense and domain maintenance.Abstract:
Conceptually, business political activity may have three major objectives: (1) to gain special monetary and anticompetitive favors from government—domain management; (2) to manage environmental turbulence created by governmental threats to the legitimacy of organizational goals and purposes—domain defense; and (3) to manage similar threats to the methods by which organizations pursue their goals and purposes—domain maintenance. This paper incorporates the political objective of domain maintenance into the existing typology of the strategic objectives of environmental management.read more
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The Double-Edge of Organizational Legitimation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that attempts to increase legitimacy may trigger a series of vicious circles which ultimately decrease legitimacy, which ultimately leads to the organization being perceived as a "clumsy actor", a "nervous actor", and an "overacting actor".
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Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that research on the business case for corporate social responsibility must account for the path-dependent nature of firm-stakeholder relations, and develop the construct of stakeholder influence capacity to fill this void.
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Corporate Political Strategy Formulation: A Model of Approach, Participation, and Strategy Decisions
Amy J. Hillman,Michael A. Hitt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a taxonomy of political strategies and identify firm and institutional variables that affect the likelihood of making specific decisions within a decision-tree model of political strategy formulation that integrates and extends prior diffused work.
Stakeholder Influence Capacity and the Variability of Financial Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that research on the business case for corporate social responsibility must account for the path-dependent nature of firm-stakeholder relations, and develop the construct of stakeholder influence capacity to fill this void.
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Corporate Political Activity: A Review and Research Agenda
TL;DR: Corporate political activities, or corporate attempts to shape government policy in ways favorable to the firm, are commonly employed by firms across countries as discussed by the authors, which are referred to as corporate political activities (CPA).
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.
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