There is a widely held view that the performance of firms depends not only on the ability of
managers to exploit economic markets but also on their ability to succeed in political …

Managing the nexus between societal and political demands represents an important
challenge for today's organizations. While non‐market strategy research debates the …

Scholars of international relations and international political economy have long
documented international business diplomacy (IBD) as a practice of multinational …

This paper introduces a special issue of the British Journal of Management on social and
political strategies in the non‐market environment. On the one hand, it reviews the extant …

Sourcing technological knowledge from abroad is becoming a popular strategy among
emerging market firms (EMFs). Combining the Knowledge-Based View and the Resource …

There is a lack of research about the political strategies used by firms in emerging countries,
mainly because the literature often assumes that Western-oriented corporate political activity …

Foreign firms in emerging countries face various institutionally-driven challenges.
Nonmarket strategy scholars argue that these challenges incite corporate political activity …

This article explores the substitution and complementary effects between political and social
strategies on firm performance in the context of an emerging market (EM). Using in‐depth …

Corruption remains a significant barrier to the socio-economic development of Africa,
despite efforts by various local, national and international stakeholders to combat it. Mishra …

While support for corporate political activity (CPA) is well echoed in the literature, little has
been done to empirically examine its ethicality. Moreover, existing ethical CPA frameworks …