{"title":"Corporate Political Activities and Political Environments in International Business","authors":"Evelyn Reithofer","doi":"10.46697/001c.88907","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes my dissertation on corporate political activities and political institutional environments in international business. It addresses how firms are affected by random (crisis), regular (election), and firm-induced changes in their political environment. The three key findings of my dissertation are that internal and external institutional pressures are not independent of each other; firms´ international and national diversification act as safeguards when political events occur; and non-pivotal corporate political activities are oftentimes underestimated. In its entirety, the dissertation not only sheds light on various political challenges, but also on firms’ strategies in addressing those challenges.","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AIB insights","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.88907","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article summarizes my dissertation on corporate political activities and political institutional environments in international business. It addresses how firms are affected by random (crisis), regular (election), and firm-induced changes in their political environment. The three key findings of my dissertation are that internal and external institutional pressures are not independent of each other; firms´ international and national diversification act as safeguards when political events occur; and non-pivotal corporate political activities are oftentimes underestimated. In its entirety, the dissertation not only sheds light on various political challenges, but also on firms’ strategies in addressing those challenges.