The Effects of Firms' Lobbying on Resource Misallocation

Huneeus, Federico; Kim, In Song

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“…Although we identified a number of studies ( n = 9) investigating psychosocial demands in these sectors, the highest number of studies looked at SMEs active in ‘Manufacturing’ ( n = 17) where the percentage of employment was considerably lower (6.7%). This may be related to differences in lobbying activities which have been shown to be relatively high in the manufacturing sector compared to other sectors including ‘wholesale trade’ [ 106 ]. The other economic sectors were partly more typical for large enterprises (e.g., electricity suppliers, oil companies, insurance companies) or public and civil-service institutions (hospitals, schools, public offices) and, as expected, fewer studies were identified here.…”

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Work-Related Psychosocial Stress in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Integrative Review

Schreibauer

Hippler

Burgess

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Background: Work-related psychosocial stress can cause mental and physical illnesses resulting in high costs for the individual, the economy and society. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ the majority of the world’s workforce and often have fewer financial and human resources compared to larger businesses. The aim of this review is to summarize current knowledge on work-related stress in SMEs according to well-established guidelines categorizing psychosocial factors at work. Methods: A systematic database search was carried out in PubMed, PsycINFO, PSYNDEX and Business Source Premiere from March to June 2019, updated in January 2020. Data of included studies were analyzed and mapped into five themes: “work content and task”, “organization of work”, “social relations”, “working environment” and “new forms of work”. Results: After full-text screening, 45 out of 116 studies were included for data extraction. Studies were very heterogeneous and of varying quality, mostly applying a cross-sectional study design. Psychosocial factors in SMEs have been researched with a focus on the work patterns “work organization” and “work content and task”. Conclusions: This review underlines the need for more and better quality research of psychosocial factors in SMEs, particularly in relation to ongoing and new challenges in the workplace, including stressors related to the process of digitalization or the development of safe working conditions during the emerge of new infectious diseases.

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Work-Related Psychosocial Stress in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Integrative Review

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Hippler

Burgess

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“…Relatedly, other studies show that lobbying can produce systematic advantages for firms' organizational characteristics. For instance, Huneeus and Kim (2018) study the causal effect of firms' lobbying activities on the misallocation of resources through the distortion of firm size and find that a 10 per cent increase in lobbying expenditure leads to a 3 per cent gain in revenue. In a similar vein, Chen et al .…”

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“…This is problematic, as the rise of firm lobbying is associated with several major concerns, such as their potential to make systems of interest representation more biased (see Gray et al ., 2004; Hart, 2004; Martin, 2005; Martin and Swank, 2004) and, relatedly, to exacerbate political systems' tendency to produce inefficient policy outputs that favour narrow and concentrated interests over diffuse ones (Gordon and Hafer, 2005; Huneeus and Kim, 2018; Richter et al ., 2009). Both dynamics are important per se, but the are also important because they have the potential to generate even worrying long‐term consequences such as economic decline (Olson, 1982) and popular disillusionment with the functioning of representative democracy (Mizruchi, 2013).…”

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The Rise of Corporate Lobbying in the European Union: An Agenda for Future Research

Hanegraaff

Poletti

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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While the interest group literature suggests there is a consistent trend towards more corporate lobbying in various political systems, it remains unclear whether this also applies to EU lobbying. This study addresses this debate in three ways. Firstly, it takes stock of the extant literature and discusses some of the methodological hurdles that have rendered it difficult to provide conclusive evidence for the rise of corporate lobbying in the EU. Secondly, it offers some suggestions on how to address these problems and delivers some stylized facts by relying on two original datasets providing 7information on lobbying activities in the EU. In line with what has been observed in other political systems, our analysis shows that the EU lobbying community has experienced a quite dramatic increase of firm lobbying over the past ten years. Finally, it reflects on how to begin developing a systematic understanding of the factors explaining this phenomenon.

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“…This paper may make incremental contributions from the following points: (1) Resource misallocation not only affects economic development, but also affects environmental quality. Most of the existing literature focuses on the economic impact of resource misallocation [ 1 , 2 , 5 ], the causes of resource misallocation [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ] and whether policies [ 12 , 13 ] or other factors [ 14 ] have exacerbated resource misallocation, while few studies have investigated the environmental impact of resource misallocation. This paper incorporates environmental issues into the research framework, and provides a new perspective for the improvement of China’s environmental issues.…”

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Resource Misallocation and Energy-Related Pollution

2021

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Developing countries face the conflict between economic development and environmental protection. Resource misallocation will not only affect the effectiveness of economic development, but also have environmental impacts. Based on two large-scale enterprise databases in China, this paper measured the level of enterprise resource allocation, and further used empirical research methods to investigate the environmental impact of enterprise resource misallocation and specific mechanisms. The results show that the low efficiency of resource allocation will harm the quality of China’s environment. Further investigation, resource misallocation is accompanied by an increase in total energy input, a decrease in the labor-to-energy ratio and the capital-to-energy ratio, and a loss of energy efficiency, which in turn affects the environmental performance of enterprises. China is the largest developing country in the world, and research on China’s environmental and economic issues is important. The conclusions of this paper can provide experience and suggestions for other developing countries to improve environmental quality and promote sustainable development from the perspective of resource misallocation.

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The Effects of Firms' Lobbying on Resource Misallocation

Cited by 31 publications

References 42 publications

Work-Related Psychosocial Stress in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Integrative Review

Work-Related Psychosocial Stress in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Integrative Review

The Rise of Corporate Lobbying in the European Union: An Agenda for Future Research

Resource Misallocation and Energy-Related Pollution

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