Using a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dataset, this paper demonstrates firms are strategic in the regulatory cases they bring to court. They are increasingly likely to bring cases as the ideological distance between the FCC and the Court increases. Judges then vote ideologically as the firms’ actions predict they will.

We study three corporate nonmarket strategies designed to influence the lobbying behavior of other special interest groups: (1) astroturf, in which the firm covertly subsidizes a group with similar views to lobby when it normally would not; (2) the bear hug, in which the firm overtly pays a group to alter its lobbying activities; and (3) self-regulation, in which the firm voluntarily limits the...

With the resource exhaustion, bad affections of human activities and the awakening of the human rights, the corporate social responsibility became popular corporate strategy achieving sustainable development of both corporation and society. The issue of Guideline of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility Report promotes greatly corporation to take social responsibility. This paper built the in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of a knowledge management (KM) strategy at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and how this was embedded in the business processes of the bank. Design/methodology/approach – Literature research and a case study were used as the methodology of the paper. Findings – The need to align KM strategy with business strategy was identified ...

Recognizing past diversification mistakes, some companies have initiated large-scale restructuring programs. Others have done nothing at all. Whatever the response, the strategic questions persist. Those who have restructured must decide what to do next to avoid repeating the past; those who have done nothing must awake to their vulnerability. To survive, companies must understand what good cor...

We study corporate non-market strategies designed to influence the lobbying behavior of other special interest groups. We focus on conditions under which costly lobbying is an informative signal to policymakers about the true state of the world, and in which stringent policy is so costly to the firm that the firm is not viewed as a credible source of information. We study three corporate non-ma...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research the nature of supply chain strategy (SCS). It represents one stage of an on-going research initiative aimed at providing a framework for systematic understanding of the linkages between corporate strategy (CS) making and supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach – The paper explored the theory and literature related to strategi...

A ̄rm's resources are di±cult to identify and imitate. Firms learn about their resources by undertaking real investments and observing the outcomes. The types of real investments a ̄rm will make depends on what the ̄rm is expected to learn from the outcomes of these investments and the real options that are available for it to exploit in the future. We predict that ̄rms will follow a life-cycle...

M anaging innovation in enterprise has always been a complex task, but it’s become even more so as organizations become more globally distributed and new digital technologies proliferate. Some studies of IT companies have used agile approaches in software development and the IT-enabled global innovation ecosystem,1–4 whereas others focus on IT’s effects on innovation.5,6 However, it’s hard to f...

Large, multidivisional enterprises need corporate data of high quality in order to meet a number of strategic business requirements, such as enterprisewide process harmonization, integrated customer management or compliance. Therefore, many enterprises today are in the process of establishing Corporate Data Quality Management (CDQM), which requires an overarching CDQM strategy. This paper prese...