Scholarship in sociology and political economy is increasingly engaging with assetization:
how objects are turned into return-bearing assets. Although assetization rests on power, it …

Practices of stakeholder engagement vary widely across voluntary sustainability standard
setters. This study examines how the sponsorship structure of standard setters affects the …

Does firm lobbying in the EU increase firm profitability? While there is a well-established
literature on this issue in the US context, existing EU studies have overlooked this question …

The European Commission has shown efforts to strengthen citizens' participation in its policy
formulation processes through public consultation opportunities. However, we currently lack …

This paper examines the impact of Brexit on UK financial services policy, explaining recent
reforms to the domestic financial regulatory framework and assessing the prospects for …

This paper argues that a high degree of conflict and a low degree of salience on a policy
issue drives corporations to lobby alone rather than via a business association. Previous …

This article develops a micro-level theoretical perspective of business influence in
international negotiations. By drawing on organizational institutional theory, the article …

Although corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gone “mainstream,” the relationship
between CSR and corporate political activities (CPA) has received little scholarly attention …

Individual firms have become the dominant lobby actors in the European Union, while
associational business interest representation has declined. This is alarming because …

Organizational ties between political parties and interest groups are common in
contemporary democracies, but little is known about the political effects of such ties. This …