Institutional Determinism and Political Strategies
研究了中国高度制度化环境中的政治策略内容与表现，基于制度理论提出概念框架，通过对233家企业的数据分析，发现政治策略多倾向于顺应而非对抗，且与企业资源和影响政府能力相关。
This article offers a rare study of the content and performance of political strategies in China’s highly institutionalized setting. A conceptual framework based on institutional theory findings is proposed to develop a set of expected political behavior. This is then confronted to data from a convenient sample of 233 firms. The results show that there are indeed recognizable patterns of political strategy, most of which are bent by the strong institutional environment toward accommodation rather than confrontation or defiance. The strategies identified were found to be related to the nature of the firms’ available resources and to the firms’ ability to extract benefits or bend the government’s behavior in their favor.