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100 _aPereda, Asier
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245 _aHow to win friends and influence the right people
_b: designing the corporate government affairs unit
_c/ Asier Pereda, Andrew Barron.
260 _bJournal of Business Strategy,
_c2020
300 _a27–37 pages.
362 _aJournal of Business Strategy (2020) 41 (5): 27–37.
520 _aThis study aims to explore how firms can design their government affairs (GAs) units in ways that improve their ability to monitor and influence legislative developments in their firms’ corporate political environments. This conceptual work is informed by existing research into organizational design, brought to life with illustrative examples of firms’ political actions derived from interviews conducted with practitioners in the field. In line with organizational design thinking, the authors find that high-performing GA units need to be designed and built using a blend of mutually reinforcing organizational mechanisms. GA units should be staffed by autonomous managers with mixed skills-sets. Moreover, they should not be constrained by formal rules, but instead given autonomy and support to create lateral relations with other business units. This study provides a “recipe” that managers can follow to create opportunities for the exchange of political information within their firms and enable and motivate GAs practitioners to monitor and influence political developments more effectively. This research exposes important, organizational antecedents of firms’ political strategies, which have not been systematically explored in the existing literature
630 0 _aMSc International Business
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650 0 _aOrganizational design
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650 0 _aEnvironmental scanning
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650 0 _aCorporate political activity
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650 0 _aBoundary spanning
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650 0 _aInformation-processing capacity
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700 _aBarron, Andrew
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856 _uhttps://www-emerald-com.hub.tbs-education.fr/jbs/article-pdf/41/5/27/1350050/jbs-09-2019-0174.pdf
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