Corporate Political Strategy in Contested Regulatory Environments

Contested Political Persuasion1

We show how contest and rent-seeking functions can be thought of as persuasion functions that can be derived in a Bayesian setting. Two contestants (such as lobbyists or politicians) produce evidence for a decision-maker (such as an agency head or a voter) who has prior beliefs and possibly other biases and engages in Bayesian updating. The probability of each contestant winning depends on the ...

Semantic Network Analysis of Contested Political Concepts

This work presents methods for exploring the lexical environment of political concepts using interactive network visualisations of corpus-derived grammatical relations and word associations. The conceptual relations consist of part-of-speech tagged words connected by typed, weighted, edges indicating the strength of relations between words, as measured by pointwise mutual information of differe...

Contested Affordance of a Corporate Change Programme Dr

Introduction This paper addresses three phenomena of interest to organizational scholars and practitioners: corporate change programmes; new forms of organising; and knowledge processes in and around organisations. It does so using a case study of the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a large UK NHS teaching hospital, that gained the status of innovator in its sector through the introduction of a reen...

Seminar in Corporate Strategy

This is a doctoral level seminar on corporate development. In each class, we will discuss and develop a particular perspective on acquisitions and alliances. The basic purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the basic assumptions, concepts, theories, empirical approaches and their limitations in contemporary research on this topic. Because these are evolving subject areas and unde...

Globalization and Corporate Political Unity