The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
The USA is witnessing a heavy debate about the influence of political campaign contributions and votes cast on the floor of the United States Congress. We contribute quantitative arguments to this predominantly qualitative discussion by analyzing a dataset of political campaign contributions. We validate that the campaign donations of politicians are mainly influenced by his or her political power...
Between 2000 and 2010, the Canadian federal government disbursed $716 893 740 in research grants through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s Research Partnerships Programs. This is only one branch, of one agency, in the immense bureaucracy of government funding. This study will examine the social networks which resulted from these research grants. Over this eleven...
Through study on political commissar system and discussion of double leading cadres' responsibility system in the army or in enterprises, this article finds out the universality. That is, one is the head within the field of ideology and the other is the general director within the field of physical form. The two not only support each other, but mutually restrain. They respectively start out from different...
This paper examines the impacts of informal and formal institutions on the efficiency of credit resource allocation in the emerging market from the perspective of political connections and marketization. Based on the data of non-state owned listed companies in China, we find that as an informal institution, Political relationship helps companies to obtain more long-term loans. However, from a social...
This study summarizes the Non-market Strategy researches of Chinese scholars, including Non-market strategy, Political action, and Political strategy. We conclude the types of the Non-market strategy, decision process, impact factors, function of enterprisers and their effect on performance, as well as the researches on improving corporate validity and performance through integration between Market...
The global financial crisis has brought an unprecedented opportunity to Chinese enterprises' overseas M&A. More and more Chinese enterprises participate in it. However, behind the prosperity of overseas M&A, there are many constraints to the internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Based on the public data and typical cases since the financial crisis, this text discussed the characteristics...
This study draws from resource based view (RBV) other than upper echelon perspective used in previous research to investigate how and when senior managers' political connections affect company's diversification strategy. Data from a sample of 1280 firms from year 2002 to 2005 highlight a strong positive relationship between political connections and company diversification. The data also suggest that...
China's stock market is systematically politicized by the government to promote its political agendas. The mantra of “socialism” has turned the stock market into a mere fund-raising vehicle for failing SOEs. The legislation and enforcement of securities-related laws are subject to the will and wishes of the government. Such a systemic politicization of stock market has caused some serious consequences...
Firms implement political strategies to influence public policy process and achieve competitive advantage over their rivals. This paper identifies 28 political tactics used by firms, and indicates that firms combine these tactics, and firm size, industrial regulatory pressure and national context of firms have important impact on the combinations of corporate political tactics, but industry's life-cycle...
Many companies have taken the recent step of setting up an independent decision-making system, often called an 'IT Investment Committee', in order to maximize the performance of their IT investments. However, merely organizing such a committee in itself might not ensure good investment performance, owing to conflicts of interest or discord among its members. In this study, it was reviewed which characteristics...
China petroleum corporations have achieved great success in cross-M&A activities, including scale, power and pace, such as the acquisition of PetroKazakhstan by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in 2005. However, they have also suffered setbacks and difficulties, and failed in the end, especially China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) had to retreat from bidding for Unocal (the...
The study investigates the effect of an employee's political skill on the performance rated by his or her direct supervisor. The moderating role of political climate on the above effect is also examined. To test our research model, we collect data from 16 Chinese manufacturing firms. Regression analyses on matched data of 343 employees, 662 colleagues, and 343 direct supervisors working in these firms...
With the managing transitions and social transformation, enterprises concern about the nonmarket environment and take active steps to adapt to external political and social environment. As a nonmarket act, corporate citizenship behavior refers to the empirical analysis in this paper. On the other hand, based on to explain "corporate citizenship behavior - strategic adaptation - competitive advantage",...
Political risk is one of the most important risks in the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Because of China's fast development of OFDI, China's multinational companies will face more and more political risks in the future. This paper discusses the evolution and nature of political risks and puts forward the political risk management procedures for multinational companies operation from four...
Two sharp questions are raised from voting paradox: first, the voting result is self-contradictory, and second, the voting result is cyclic. In order to have a more clear analysis of voting paradox, this thesis draws a generating mechanism of the paradox. The voting paradox mechanism figure was depicted and majority rule was revealed to be the cause of the voting paradox by analyzing its reasoning...
In examining the history of IBM in Chile, this article asks how IBM came to dominate Chile's computer market and, to address this question, emphasizes the importance of studying both IBM corporate strategy and Chilean national history. The article also examines how IBM reproduced its corporate culture in Latin America and used it to accommodate the region's political and economic changes.
The paper presents a panel discussion from the distinguished members of the electronics industry as they outline the platforms and priorities that the industry would like from the incoming administration of the United States of America. The discussion was framed in a way to help explain what is to be expected from the new administration.
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.