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100			_aBarron, Andrew _926279
245			_aToward a Professions-Based Understanding of Ethical and Responsible Lobbying _c/ Andrew Barron and Lila Skountridaki
260			_bBusiness & Society _c2022
362			_aBusiness & Society 2022, Vol. 61(2) 340–371
520			_aResponding to calls for more substantive studies into ethical and responsible lobbying, we analyze data collected over a five-year period in Brussels to explore how individual lobbyists understand the ethical dimensions of their work. Mobilizing insights from the sociology of the professions, we expose an emerging lobbying professionalism and unpack practitioners’ understandings of what being a professional lobbyist entails—focusing in particular on their espoused values of transparency and honesty. While expectations to lobby more transparently and honestly stem from political institutions, we find that individual lobbyists—acting as conduits—attempt to disseminate these expectations by setting limits that encourage their clients to embrace what policymakers consider professional lobbying practice. Our study contributes to corporate political activity (CPA) scholarship by providing a professions-based understanding of ethical and responsible approaches to lobbying. We offer new insights into both contextual and individual-level factors behind the emergence of such approaches, and elucidate the implications of lobbying professionalism for business and European Union (EU) governance.
653			_aCorporate political activity
653			_aProfessionalism
653			_aResponsible Lobbying
653			_aTransparency
653			_aWork Ethics
700			_aSkountridaki, L. _926427
856			_uhttps://bibliotheque.tbs-education.fr/Default/doc/edselc/_b64_ZWRzZWxjLjItNTIuMC04NTA5Njg0ODAxNw%3d%3d/toward-a-professions-based-understanding-of-ethical-and-responsible-lobbying
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