We review articles about corporate political activity (CPA) published in Business & Society
since its beginnings 60 years ago and in a set of other leading management journals over …

In this review, we provide a framework for understanding both the predictors and
approaches of CPA that firms undertake to achieve their objectives. We identify the …

Corporate political activity (CPA) research has traditionally focused on instrumental and
strategic value, explicitly ignoring how external stakeholders, specifically the public, view the …

This case study examines whether politically connected entrepreneurs benefit from their
political connections. We study the regulated Thai telecoms industry from its inception in the …

A widely accepted benefit of corporate political activities (CPA) is lowering a firm's overall
level of uncertainty. Yet CPA is fundamentally an exchange: something is given for the …

This study draws upon the institutional‐based view to examine how home country
institutional voids affect the corporate social performance (CSP) of emerging market …

In this paper, we examine firm exclusion requests from the Section 232 tariffs placed on steel
articles by President Donald Trump in March of 2018. The Presidential Proclamation that …

This article investigates how an industry leveraged media coverage to publicly oppose
governmental policy. Based on a frame analysis of the political contest between the mining …

In this paper, we advance recent calls to deliver a novel lobbying data source through which
researchers can analyze national and international sociopolitical environments and their …

We develop a theory that considers important differences in competition in the political arena
based on whether firms are attempting to maintain or alter the status quo. Particularly, we …