TY - JOUR
T1 - How do firms compete in the non-market? The process of political capability building
AU - Brown, Richard S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
� 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - This paper contributes to both corporate political activity (CPA) research and capabilities theory research by offering models that better describe the process that managers undertake to nurture a political capability. This is done through the interplay of four factors inherent in political actions, namely (i) corporate structure, (ii) firm-government linkages, (iii) political access and (iv) public policy pressure. Additionally, recognizing that political capability attainment is not a binary endeavor, I offer a political capability continuum to better categorize the magnitude by which differing firms allocate resources toward molding public policy. This paper adds to the scant literature on managementfocused CPA research that integrates the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and political action research.
AB - This paper contributes to both corporate political activity (CPA) research and capabilities theory research by offering models that better describe the process that managers undertake to nurture a political capability. This is done through the interplay of four factors inherent in political actions, namely (i) corporate structure, (ii) firm-government linkages, (iii) political access and (iv) public policy pressure. Additionally, recognizing that political capability attainment is not a binary endeavor, I offer a political capability continuum to better categorize the magnitude by which differing firms allocate resources toward molding public policy. This paper adds to the scant literature on managementfocused CPA research that integrates the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and political action research.
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U2 - 10.1515/bap-2015-0019
DO - 10.1515/bap-2015-0019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991384133
SN - 1369-5258
VL - 18
SP - 263
EP - 295
JO - Business and Politics
JF - Business and Politics
IS - 3
ER -