2016 Springer Science+Business Media DordrechtMany corporations actively engage in political activities to enhance their relationships with politicians, facilitating access to scarce resources and creating competitive advantages. We investigate corporate donations to explore how they initiate interactions between ...
Corporate donations have emerged as a new litmus test for Democratic candidates. In ads, stump speeches and debates, scores of politicians are pledging to reject corporate PAC donations. But the pledge may be more symbolic than financial. "Money has now really tipped the balance between an ...
Some companies have opted to suspend donations to all politicians, regardless of whether or not they voted against upholding the Electoral College results. 3M(MMM):3M(MMM)said it’s pausing its political contributions for the first quarter of the year and will “reassess its political contributions...
Regressing our weighted average ratings on the sociopolitical claims variables enables us to evaluate the extent to which more claims are associated with more donations to politicians whose voting records are in line with the firms' communicated claims. The coefficients on Ln(ENVtimes), Ln(ENVdocs)...
When firms adopt the global standards embedded in international governance codes of conduct, the less likely they may engage in corrupt relations with local and federal authorities (e.g., the need to make donations to political parties in government, provide employment to the family or constituents...
By narrowing the focus in this way, it is possible to gain more precise insights into the potential effects of partisan conflict. In the principal analysis, I formally define political connections based on political donations and government spending. First, a company is defined as having high ...
Daines, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, used his slot to plead for cash for his GOP candidates, and he helpfully included a website for donations. His name drops gave a hint toward what he sees as an expanding map: Jim Justice in West Virginia, Tim Sheehy in Mo...
(c)s are not required to disclose the identity of their donors. They can bundle donations into a few or a single check before either spending the money themselves on political ads (which they are increasingly doing), or else passing funds along to Super PACs which do the ad-buying. In ...
We do not make any donations to politicians or political organizations, apart from those permitted by law. 12. Relationships with Distributors (1) We do not attempt to maintain prices for our products and services by treating distributors unfairly. (2) We do not place unfair pressure on distrib...
The CPA literature is largely focused on the activities that companies employ to obtain favourable government policies and laws - such as the provision of campaign donations, lobby activities and generating grassroot support (‘astroturfing’) (Hillman et al. 2004; Lux et al., 2011; Walker, ...