Corporate Championing and Antagonism as Forms of Political Behavior: An R&D Perspective
研究发现，总经理、营销、生产和客服人员会扮演支持或反对研发项目的政治角色；支持者倾向于符合公司商业利益而非技术专长的项目，且同样可能支持高绩效和低绩效项目，这与常见观点相悖。反对者则是对支持者的反应，不影响资源或项目终止。
Individuals in general management, marketing, production, and customer service undertake corporate political roles of championing and antagonism in support of or opposition to research and development (R&D) projects. R&D personnel see these champions acting politically because they favor projects that align more closely with the firm's business interests than with its specific technologies. Champions find resources and protect their projects from termination; however, they are equally likely to support high and low performing projects. These results contradict many of the commonly held beliefs in research literature about champions. Antagonists, in a role of friendly opposition, appear to react to the presence of champions and do not appear to affect resources or project termination.