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To engage or not to engage with host governments : corporate political activity and host-country political risk
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De Villa, Maria A., Rajwani, Tazeeb, Lawton, Thomas C. and Mellahi, Kamel (2019) To engage or not to engage with host governments : corporate political activity and host-country political risk. Global Strategy Journal, 9 (2). pp. 208-242. doi:10.1002/gsj.1205 ISSN 2042-5791.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1205
Abstract
We analyze how a host market’s institutional context can influence an MNE’s senior management’s choice and deployment of corporate political activity (CPA). First, we argue that a non-engaged approach to CPA is likely to be chosen when senior management perceives high host-country political risk, arising not only from host-country political institutions, but also from the distance between home and host-government relations. Second, we propose that the deployment of this approach can require active adaptation through four political strategies: low-visibility, ensuring a minimal degree of general attention from other actors; rapid-compliance, entailing high speed actions to obey the rules; reconfiguration, involving re-arranging the MNE’s structure and processes for competitiveness; and anticipation, implying the prediction of public policy and analysis of interest groups to anticipate responses.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Strategy Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2042-5791 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 208-242 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/gsj.1205 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 January 2018 | ||||||||
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