Purpose – This study aims to investigate how corporate lobbying affects the relationship between collaboration networks and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The study incorporates insights from the corporate political strategy perspective into the social network research to examine...

By relying on upper echelons theory and agency theory, this study explores how CEO characteristics impact firms’ engagement in corporate political strategy (CPS). The current study proposes that depending on their CEOs’ tenure, firms have different interests and incentives to make CPS...