Introduction: Integrating Research Perspectives on Business and Society

Leitzinger, Jocelyn M.; King, Brayden G.; Briscoe, Forrest

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“…I argue that political sociology, should, in the coming years, expand its engagement not only with empirical organizational processes in states, parties, and civil societies (as argued recently by J. L. Martin & Judd, 2020), but also with the substantial and evolving traditions of organizational theory. Just as the intersection of social movements and organizational theory has generated an immensely productive cross‐fertilization in the past 2 decades (for reviews, see Leitzinger, King, & Briscoe, 2018; Walker, 2012), I argue that political sociology as a broader enterprise should follow in these footsteps to a greater extent (echoing Zald, 2008).…”

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“…Just as the intersection of social movements and organizational theory has generated an immensely productive crossfertilization in the past 2 decades (for reviews, see Leitzinger, King, & Briscoe, 2018;Walker, 2012), I argue that political sociology as a broader enterprise should follow in these footsteps to a greater extent (echoing Zald, 2008).…”

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“…Given space constraints, I am not in a position to give full treatment to studies in a variety of related areas, such as network theories, those that focus directly on organizational culture and cognition, or research on varieties of capitalism or political economy writ large; however, where linked to the main themes listed above, I do incorporate studies that touch on each of these areas. And although it is clear that social movement‐inflected organizational theories have become their own tradition in recent years, particularly in field theories (Fligstein & McAdam, 2012; King & Walker, 2014), given the numerous and extensive reviews of this subfield in recent years (e.g., Leitzinger et al., 2018; Walker, 2012), I focus less on these contributions in the present review, opting instead to fold them into each of the other areas as fitting.…”

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“…Most centrally, ideas in this broad tradition have received more attention in the area of “non‐market strategy” in management/organizational studies (Baron, 1999; Baron & Diermeier, 2007; Funk & Hirschman, 2015), a literature that highlights the ways that firms engage strategically in politics, philanthropy, and other societal domains in order to gain them advantages beyond their standard practices of competition in the marketplace. Scholars working in this area often focus most heavily upon regulatory politics (e.g., Bonardi et al., 2006), but legislative outcomes, campaign spending, connections to political parties, and, increasingly, social movements, are also well‐represented (see Leitzinger et al., 2018 for a review). Although nonmarket strategy is, of course, much larger and more capacious than a narrow focus on resource dependencies—and scholarship in the area regularly builds from institutionalist, ecological, social‐movement, and other general theories of business strategy (Leitzinger et al., 2018)—research in the broad RDT tradition still has a clear and central home within nonmarket strategy.…”

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Organizational theory in political sociology

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2021

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Organizational theory and research has been enormously generative for political sociologists, if not always as fully centered as it might be, relative to broader notions of political power, economic resources, culture, and their interplay. This review both calls attention to the ways that organizational theory continues to inform political sociology and sets an agenda for how this interchange can be productively extended in various ways in scholarship on states, political parties, advocacy organizations, and business influences in politics. I highlight the genealogy of the new institutionalism and its variants (World Polity and institutional logics), population ecology (and the growing interest in both categories and audiences, alongside studies of the "ecology of ideology"), and research that follows in the broad tradition of resource dependence theory (and the link to more management-oriented approaches such as "non-market strategy" and stakeholder theories of organizational political activities). I also emphasize how novel theories of social movements and fields have offered innovative insights that incorporate organizational and political processes. I conclude by elaborating an agenda for how political sociologists can go further in maintaining and extending their highly productive and rewarding engagements with organizational theory.

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2021

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“…Second, we engage with the business-government-relations literature (Dorobantu, Kaul, and Zelner, 2017; Hiatt, Carlos, and Sine, 2018; Leitzinger, King, and Briscoe, 2018) by exploring how the administrative state’s implementation of public policy affects firms. This is an important area of investigation because regulators are often the primary and most frequent point of contact for businesses (Carpenter, 2002).…”

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State Agency Discretion and Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets

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Hiatt

2020

Administrative Science Quarterly

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Barriers to entry in regulated markets are frequently conceptualized as static features that must be removed or overcome if new entrants are to successfully enter a market. But government institutions regulating markets often comprise multiple levels that exist in tension with one another due to differing incentives and motivations. We argue that the principal–agent tension between elected officials and agency bureaucrats may render regulatory barriers to entry more malleable, even in the absence of formal policy changes. To test this proposition, we bring the administrative state center stage and examine how regulatory discretion—regulatory agencies’ flexibility to interpret and implement public policies created by elected officials—can influence the market entry of new ventures. Using data on regulatory approval of hydroelectric facilities in the United States from 1978 to 2014, we find that increased state agency discretion improves outcomes for new ventures relative to incumbent firms by freeing regulatory agency officials to interpret and implement policies according to a professional motivation of public service and reducing incumbents’ political influence.

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When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment

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King

2024

Strategic Management Journal

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Research SummaryThis article examines the association between ideology and firm participation in sociopolitical activism. In particular, it focuses on the ideological alignment between a firm's upper echelons and its general employees. We theorize that participation in progressive corporate activism reflects the ideological views of both the top management team and general employees. By examining firm participation in letter campaigns supporting progressive causes, our findings indicate that ideological alignment between a top management teams and general employees' liberal political leanings is associated with a firm's participation in progressive corporate activism. The CEO's own ideological preferences do not have an independent association with this kind of activism. This article concludes with a discussion of implications for our understanding of corporate political action and nonmarket strategy.Managerial SummaryThis article looks at the relationship between political ideology and firm participation in sociopolitical activism. Although some have argued that firms' activism reflects a CEO's ideological preferences or employee activism, we find that neither explanation fully accounts for the kinds of companies that engage in this kind of activism. We find that progressive corporate activism reflects the ideological views of both top management and general employees. Our findings suggest that companies that have ideological alignment on progressive issues are more likely to take public stands on those issues because the stands reinforce core values held by employees and the top management.

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Introduction: Integrating Research Perspectives on Business and Society

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

Organizational theory in political sociology

Organizational theory in political sociology

State Agency Discretion and Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets

When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment

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