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  1. Testing the Firm as a Filter of Corporate Political Action.Kathleen A. Rehbein & Douglas A. Schuler - 1999 - Business and Society 38 (2):144-166.
    This study tests an integrative model of corporate political action, the filter model, based on the behavioral theory of the firm. The filter model posits that external political, economic, and industry environments are mediated by organizational structures and resources to affect a firm’s political actions. The authors rate the filter model’s predictive power against that of an economic-based direct-effects model by examining the efforts of about 1,100 U.S.-domiciled manufacturing firms to influence trade policy. LISREL analysis demonstrates that the integrative filter (...)
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  • State autonomy & civil society: The lobbyist connection.Rogan Kersh - 2000 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 14 (2-3):237-258.
    The much‐noted decline of “state autonomy” theories owes partly to external challenges to state power, such as globalization, supranational regimes, and the like. But advanced democratic states have also long been seen as threatened from within, especially by powerful private interest groups. The extent of private‐interest influence on policy making depends in important part on corporate lobbyists, a group whose activities are chronicled in this essay. Lobbyists exercise considerably more autonomy from the private clients who hire them than has previously (...)
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  • The Law and Ethics of K Street.Daniel T. Ostas - 2007 - Business Ethics Quarterly 17 (1):33-63.
    This article explores the law and ethics of lobbying. The legal discussion examines disclosure regulations, employment restrictions,bribery laws, and anti-fraud provisions as each applies to the lobbying context. The analysis demonstrates that given the social value placed on the First Amendment, federal law generally affords lobbyists wide latitude in determining who, what, when, where, and how to lobby.The article then turns to ethics. Lobbying involves deliberate attempts to effect changes in the law. An argument is advanced that because law implicates (...)
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  • Corporate Dystopia.Miguel Alzola - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):388-426.
    This article is concerned with the moral permissibility of corporate political activities under the existing legal framework in the United States. The author unpacks and examines the standard case for and against the involvement of business in lobbying and electoral activities. And the author provides six objections against the standard arguments and proposes that the wrongness of corporate political activities does not have much to do with its potential social consequences but rather with nonconsequentialist considerations. The author’s ultimate aim is (...)
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  • The Labor Market for Politicians.Glenn R. Parker, Suzanne L. Parker & Matthew S. Dabros - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):427-450.
    The so-called revolving door between employment in government and industry is especially relevant to the U.S. Congress because ex-legislators are notorious for taking jobs as lobbyists. There are two prominent explanations for why they do so: Lobbying either matches the talents of former legislators due to their specialized congressional training or it represents customary ex-post payments for ex-ante legislative assistance to special interests. This article explores the former dynamic, focusing on how specialized training impacts occupational outcomes of legislators and finds (...)
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  • The Causal Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Social Responsibility.Hoje Jo & Maretno A. Harjoto - 2012 - Journal of Business Ethics 106 (1):53-72.
    In this article, we examine the empirical association between corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement by investigating their causal effects. Employing a large and extensive US sample, we first find that while the lag of CSR does not affect CG variables, the lag of CG variables positively affects firms’ CSR engagement, after controlling for various firm characteristics. In addition, to examine the relative importance of stakeholder theory and agency theory regarding the associations among CSR, CG, and corporate (...)
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  • Democratizing Corporate Governance.Andreas Georg Scherer, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly & Anselm Schneider - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):473-514.
    This article addresses the democratic deficit that emerges when private corporations engage in public policy, either by providing citizenship rights and global public goods (corporate citizenship) or by influencing the political system and lobbying for their economic interests (strategic corporate political activities). This democratic deficit is significant, especially when multinational corporations operate in locations where national governance mechanisms are weak or even fail, where the rule of law is absent and there is a lack of democratic control. This deficit may (...)
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  • Ethical Standards for Business Lobbying.J. Brooke Hamilton Iii & David Hoch - 1997 - Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3):117-129.
    Rather than being inherently evil, business lobbying is a socially responsible activity which needs to be restrained by ethical standards. To be effective in a business environment, traditional ethical standards need to be translated into language which business persons can speak comfortably. Economical explanations must also be available to explain why ethical standards are appropriate in business. Eight such standards and their validating arguments are proposed with examples showing their use. Internal dialogues regarding the ethics of lobbying objectives and tactics (...)
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  • The Labor Market for Politicians.Nicolas Dahan - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):427-450.
    The so-called revolving door between employment in government and industry is especially relevant to the U.S. Congress because ex-legislators are notorious for taking jobs as lobbyists. There are two prominent explanations for why they do so: Lobbying either matches the talents of former legislators due to their specialized congressional training or it represents customary ex-post payments for ex-ante legislative assistance to special interests. This article explores the former dynamic, focusing on how specialized training impacts occupational outcomes of legislators and finds (...)
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  • The New Federalism: Implications for the Legitimacy of Corporate Political Activity.Sandra L. Christensen - 1997 - Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3):81-91.
    Abstract:The new push to move political issue activity from the federal to the state and local levels—a new New Federalism—has implications for the ethical and political legitimacy of business political activity. While business political activity at the federal level may be both less costly and less risky than when action shifts to states or localities, at the state or local level it is likely to be more visible, and individual firms may be perceived to have more power. Increased corporate power (...)
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  • Citizenship and Democracy: The Ethics of Corporate LobbyingThe Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington.Leonard J. Weber & Jeffrey H. Birnbaum - 1996 - Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (2):253.
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  • An ethical approach to lobbying activities of businesses in the united states.Jane M. Keffer & Ronald Paul Hill - 1997 - Journal of Business Ethics 16 (12-13):1371-1379.
    This paper presents an ethical approach to the use of lobbying within the context of the relationships among U.S. organizations, their lobbyists, and government officials. After providing a brief history of modern-day lobbying activities, lobbying is defined and described focusing on its role as a strategic marketing tool. Then ethical frameworks for understanding the impact of these practices on various external constituencies are delineated with an emphasis on the communitarian movement advanced by Etzioni. Consistent with the call for "informed advocacy" (...)
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  • Ethical Standards for Business Lobbying: Some Practical Suggestions.J. Brooke Hamilton & David Hoch - 1997 - Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3):117-129.
    Rather than being inherently evil, business lobbying is a socially responsible activity which needs to be restrained by ethical standards. To be effective in a business environment, traditional ethical standards need to be translated into language which business persons can speak comfortably. Economical explanations must also be available to explain why ethical standards are appropriate in business. Eight such standards and their validating arguments are proposed with examples showing their use. Internal dialogues regarding the ethics of lobbying objectives and tactics (...)
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  • The Influence of Ownership Structure on How Firms Make Corporate Political Strategy Choices.Nicolas Dahan - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):451-472.
    This study integrates the research on corporate political strategy and corporate governance. Using the agency theory perspective, this study examines how corporate governance mechanisms such as institutional ownership, insider ownership, and long-term executive compensation affect a firm’s political strategy approach. This study proposes that an agency problem may occur between owners and managers in regard to firms’ approach to corporate political strategy. Since a relational approach to corporate political strategy, such as establishing a government relations office in Washington, DC, requires (...)
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  • The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct.David Vogel - 2010 - Business and Society 49 (1):68-87.
    The article assesses the achievements and limitations of the private regulation of global corporate conduct. Private regulation occurs through voluntary, private, nonstate industry and cross-industry codes that address labor practices, environmental performance, and human rights policies. The author argues that while private regulation has resulted in some substantive improvements in corporate behavior, it cannot be regarded as a substitute for the more effective exercise of state authority at both the national and international levels. Ultimately, private regulation must be integrated with (...)
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  • The ethics of pressure groups.Peter Whawell - 1998 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 7 (3):178–181.
    Are the strategies and tactics that pressure groups use against businesses ethically defensible?
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  • Democratizing Corporate Governance.Nicolas Dahan - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):473-514.
    This article addresses the democratic deficit that emerges when private corporations engage in public policy, either by providing citizenship rights and global public goods (corporate citizenship) or by influencing the political system and lobbying for their economic interests (strategic corporate political activities). This democratic deficit is significant, especially when multinational corporations operate in locations where national governance mechanisms are weak or even fail, where the rule of law is absent and there is a lack of democratic control. This deficit may (...)
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  • A Framework for the Ethical Analysis of Corporate Political Activity.William D. Oberman - 2004 - Business and Society Review 109 (2):245-262.
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  • Ethical Aspects of Using Government to Subvert Competition: Antidumping Laws as a Case Study of Rent Seeking Activity.Robert W. McGee - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 83 (4):759-771.
    This article examines the question of whether it is ethical for company officials to use the force of government to reduce or eliminate foreign competition, using the antidumping laws as a case study. This article begins with a brief examination of the U.S. antidumping laws and then examines several ethical questions related to the antidumping laws. The main question to be addressed is whether, and under what circumstances, it is ethical for domestic producers to ask government to launch an antidumping (...)
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  • Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in the Business—Government— Society Interface.Nicolas Dahan - 2010 - Business and Society 49 (1):20-34.
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  • Business–Government Interactions in a Globalizing Economy.Arnold Wilts & Mika Skippari - 2007 - Business and Society 46 (2):129-135.
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  • The Influence of Ownership Structure on How Firms Make Corporate Political Strategy Choices.Mine Ozer & Ekin Alakent - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):451-472.
    This study integrates the research on corporate political strategy and corporate governance. Using the agency theory perspective, this study examines how corporate governance mechanisms such as institutional ownership, insider ownership, and long-term executive compensation affect a firm’s political strategy approach. This study proposes that an agency problem may occur between owners and managers in regard to firms’ approach to corporate political strategy. Since a relational approach to corporate political strategy, such as establishing a government relations office in Washington, DC, requires (...)
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  • Corporate Dystopia.Nicolas Dahan - 2013 - Business and Society 52 (3):388-426.
    This article is concerned with the moral permissibility of corporate political activities under the existing legal framework in the United States. The author unpacks and examines the standard case for and against the involvement of business in lobbying and electoral activities. And the author provides six objections against the standard arguments and proposes that the wrongness of corporate political activities does not have much to do with its potential social consequences but rather with nonconsequentialist considerations. The author’s ultimate aim is (...)
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