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Ki, Eyun-Jung, Junghyuk Lee, and Hong-Lim Choi. "Factors affecting ethical practice of public relations professionals within public relations firms." Asian Journal of Business Ethics 1, no. 2 (December 23, 2011): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13520-011-0013-1.

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Zavattaro, Staci M. "Municipalities as Public Relations and Marketing Firms." Administrative Theory & Praxis 32, no. 2 (June 2010): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/atp1084-1806320202.

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Al-Jenaibi, Badreya. "Research Practices in Public Relations Organizations in the United Arab Emirates." International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management 5, no. 3 (July 2014): 14–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcrmm.2014070102.

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This manuscript draws from extensive research conducted in various public relations firms in the United Arab Emirates, and describes contemporary research practices on which these firms are building. Their inclination is toward incorporation of permanent research in their organizational framework and in-depth analyses regarding how public relations firms evolve and meet clients' future expectations. In-depth analyses were conducted in national, international, small, average, and high-scale public relations firms to determine how research is helping, at various levels, to excel and impress clients. Mixed research methods were used; 350 questionnaires were distributed and 17 face-to- face interviews were conducted over 7 months. Results suggest that the economic, social, and institutional characteristics of public relations firms in the United Arab Emirates are dissimilar to other countries, so extensive research is required to determine the significance of research concerning improving public relations practices in the country.

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Gustafsson, Anders, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, and Daniel Halvarsson. "Subsidy Entrepreneurs: an Inquiry into Firms Seeking Public Grants." Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 20, no. 3 (November 21, 2019): 439–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-019-00317-0.

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AbstractThis paper studies the incentives and characteristics of firms that apply for, and eventually receive, one or multiple governmental grants intended to stimulate innovation and growth. The analysis departs from a contest model in which entrepreneurs are free to allocate their effort between production and seeking grants. The results suggest that highly productive entrepreneurs abstain from seeking grants, moderately productive firms allocate a share of their effort to grant seeking, and low-productivity firms allocate most resources to seeking grants. Due to their efforts in seeking grants, these low-productive subsidy entrepreneurs also have a relatively high probability of receiving the grants. Using comprehensive data over grants from the three largest grant-distributing agencies in Sweden, we find concordant evidence of a negative relation between the probability of receiving a grant and firm productivity. As we go from single- to multiple-grant-supported firms, this negative relation becomes more pronounced.

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Ki, Eyun-Jung, and Soo-Yeon Kim. "Ethics Statements of Public Relations Firms: What Do They Say?" Journal of Business Ethics 91, no. 2 (April 28, 2009): 223–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0080-6.

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Rodrigs, Marcus Craig. "Use of the Internet for investor relations by public listed companies." Corporate Ownership and Control 13, no. 4 (2016): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i4p8.

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With the increasing emphasis on developing economies and the use of the internet for corporate relationship building, this study aims to investigate the usage of internet by listed companies in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. The study will also include comparison of the contents of investor relationships with empirical evidence from around the world. The sample size contains 105 firms listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Employing statistical analysis for measuring investor relations based on available contents disclosed in firms’ website for investor information, this study found that the 105 firms disclose contents related to investors on their websites but fall short of the standard of other countries with only the company profile as the most prominent disclosure. Study result reports that companies in Bangladesh are still behind compared to developed economies in terms of using internet for investor relations. The study also recommends the Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh Garments Manufacturing and Export Association (BGMEA) and other indigenous regulatory bodies encourage firms to disclose more investor related information

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Chalmers, Adam William, and Onna Malou van den Broek. "Financial volatility and public scrutiny as institutional determinants of financial industry firms' CSR." Business and Politics 21, no. 2 (January 26, 2019): 240–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2018.28.

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AbstractThis article examines the relationship between the global financial crisis and Corporate Social Responsibility reporting of financial services firms. We challenge the view in existing studies that firms, when faced with economic hardship, tend to jettison CSR commitments. Instead, and building on insights regarding the institutional determinants of CSR, we argue that firms are constrained in their ability to abandon CSR by the extent to which they are subject to intense public scrutiny by regulators and the news media. We test this argument in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis drawing on a unique dataset of 170 firms in 15 different countries over a six-year period. Controlling for a battery of alternative explanations and comparing financial service providers to firms operating in other economic sectors, we find considerable evidence supporting our argument. Rather than abandoning CSR during times of economic hardship, financial industry firms ramp up their CSR commitments in order to manage their public image and foster public trust in light of intense public scrutiny.

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Bárcena-Ruiz, Juan Carlos, and María Begoña Garzón. "Relocation and public ownership of firms." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 23, no. 1 (March 2009): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2009.01.002.

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Makamani, Rewai, and Tawanda Zimanyi. "Factors Influencing the Ethical Conduct of Public Relations Practitioners in Commercial Banks in Namibia." African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v2i1.824.

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This study examines factors that influence the ethical conduct of practising Public Relations (PR) practitioners in commercial banks of Namibia. Such factors relate to the ethical behaviour of Public Relations professionals working in commercial banks. The factors include the presence of binding codes of ethics and conduct, individual moral compasses, pressure from top management, a sense of duty towards humanity, and knowledge of ethics and professionalism. This analysis reveals that PR practitioners face ethical challenges and dilemmas from the banks’ dominant coalitions, ambiguous codes of ethics, speedy communication to the public necessitated by the news media, and the clash between the core values that inform the duty of PR professionals and those that prop up organisational culture. Ultimately, the challenges and dilemmas they confront in their work determines the way they conduct themselves ethically. The study conceives that PR practitioners are torn between upholding PR values that inform their duty and standing up for organisational values as advocated for by the dominant coalition. Ironically, PR practitioners are regarded as the ethical conscience of the commercial banks who, as per recommendations of the study, are expected to practise ethically and live up to their mandate of being custodians of ethical communication.

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Makamani, Rewai, and Tawanda Zimanyi. "Factors Influencing the Ethical Conduct of Public Relations Practitioners in Commercial Banks in Namibia." African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v2i1.824.

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This study examines factors that influence the ethical conduct of practising Public Relations (PR) practitioners in commercial banks of Namibia. Such factors relate to the ethical behaviour of Public Relations professionals working in commercial banks. The factors include the presence of binding codes of ethics and conduct, individual moral compasses, pressure from top management, a sense of duty towards humanity, and knowledge of ethics and professionalism. This analysis reveals that PR practitioners face ethical challenges and dilemmas from the banks’ dominant coalitions, ambiguous codes of ethics, speedy communication to the public necessitated by the news media, and the clash between the core values that inform the duty of PR professionals and those that prop up organisational culture. Ultimately, the challenges and dilemmas they confront in their work determines the way they conduct themselves ethically. The study conceives that PR practitioners are torn between upholding PR values that inform their duty and standing up for organisational values as advocated for by the dominant coalition. Ironically, PR practitioners are regarded as the ethical conscience of the commercial banks who, as per recommendations of the study, are expected to practise ethically and live up to their mandate of being custodians of ethical communication.

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van den Broek, Onna. "Soft Law Engagements and Hard Law Preferences: Comparing EU Lobbying Positions between UN Global Compact Signatory Firms and Other Interest Group Types." Business and Politics 23, no. 3 (June 7, 2021): 383–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2021.2.

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AbstractAlthough corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gone “mainstream,” the relationship between CSR and corporate political activities (CPA) has received little scholarly attention. This is problematic because firms potentially have a more sizable impact through their lobbying activities for socially and environmentally beneficial (or unbeneficial) public policies than through their own operations. This paper investigates if, and how, UN Global Compact signatory firms differ in their policy preferences on key EU proposals compared to other interest groups. To capture state-of-the-art data on firms’ policy preferences, I draw from the INTEREURO database, which includes firms’ lobbying positions on forty-three directives and twenty-seven regulations covering 112 public policy issues in the European Union. Statistical results show that Global Compact signatory firms significantly lobby for stricter regulation than non-signatory firms and industry associations, however, their positions are still lower than nonbusiness groups. These results are similar across various public policy issues and suggest that the regulatory preferences of firms’ participating in soft law CSR initiatives are more aligned with stakeholders' interests. This paper contributes to public policy literature exploring the relationship between hard and soft law as well as literature studying the political representation of divergent interest.

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Kirk, Marcus P., and James D. Vincent. "Professional Investor Relations within the Firm." Accounting Review 89, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 1421–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr-50724.

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ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the effect of investments in internal investor relations (IR) departments on firm outcomes. We find that companies initiating internal professional IR experience increases in disclosure, analyst following, institutional investor ownership, liquidity, and market valuation relative to a matched sample of control firms. We also examine the differential impact the exogenous shock of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) had on firms with an established professional IR department. We find these IR firms more than doubled their level of public disclosure post-Reg FD. Despite IR firms losing a potential communications channel following Reg FD adoption, we find they did not suffer adversely and instead show a post-Reg FD increase in analyst following, institutional investors, and liquidity relative to a control sample of similar non-IR firms. This implies that the effectiveness of professionalized internal IR increased post-Reg FD consistent with IR firms being relatively better positioned to navigate the more complicated regulatory environment. JEL Classifications: D82; M41; G11; G12; G14; G24 Data Availability: Data are publicly available from the sources identified in the paper with the exception of the membership data from the National Investor Relations Institute, which is a proprietary dataset.

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Steiner, Carol J. "Australian Management Attitudes Toward Public Relations: Strategic Opportunities Lost." Journal of Management & Organization 7, no. 1 (2001): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200005290.

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AbstractThis paper reports some empirical research that examines how senior managers in large Australian organisations view and use public relations. The results suggest few Australian organisations practice ‘symmetric public relations,’ which means encouraging stakeholder participation in decisions, especially in corporate strategic planning. This may well represent lost strategic opportunities as it limits the scope of a firm's orientation to its external environment and denies firms the benefit of such an orientation.

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Steiner, Carol J. "Australian Management Attitudes Toward Public Relations: Strategic Opportunities Lost." Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 7, no. 1 (2001): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2001.7.1.38.

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AbstractThis paper reports some empirical research that examines how senior managers in large Australian organisations view and use public relations. The results suggest few Australian organisations practice ‘symmetric public relations,’ which means encouraging stakeholder participation in decisions, especially in corporate strategic planning. This may well represent lost strategic opportunities as it limits the scope of a firm's orientation to its external environment and denies firms the benefit of such an orientation.

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Thomas, Rhodri. "Tourism Partnerships and Small Firms." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 8, no. 1 (February 2007): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000007780007344.

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Partnerships have been a central feature of the tourism public policy landscape in advanced capitalist countries for some time. The intuitively appealing argument is that, by sharing expertise and decision making, commitment to the local tourism project is ensured. By participating in partnership working, small firms – which are almost universally characteristic of the sector – are said to contribute to the form and competitiveness of the tourism offer. Drawing on a variety of sources, this paper argues that in most cases such assertions are misplaced because ‘partnerships’ organized by the public sector are often predicated on an inadequate conceptualization of small firms in tourism, fail to appreciate the importance and complexity of informal economic relations, and usually ignore the particular power relations at play in local tourism policy formation and change.

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Ong, Elisa K., and Stanton A. Glantz. "Constructing “Sound Science” and “Good Epidemiology”: Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms." American Journal of Public Health 91, no. 11 (November 2001): 1749–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.91.11.1749.

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Wee, Chow-Hou, Soo-Jiuan Tan, and Kim-Ling Chew. "Organizational response to public relations: An empirical study of firms in Singapore." Public Relations Review 22, no. 3 (September 1996): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0363-8111(96)90049-1.

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Kitchen, P. J., and R. A. Proctor. "The increasing importance of public relations in fast moving consumer goods firms." Journal of Marketing Management 7, no. 4 (January 1991): 357–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.1991.9964164.

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MALHOTRA, NEIL, BENOÎT MONIN, and MICHAEL TOMZ. "Does Private Regulation Preempt Public Regulation?" American Political Science Review 113, no. 1 (November 12, 2018): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055418000679.

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Previous research has emphasized corporate lobbying as a pathway through which businesses influence government policy. This article examines a less-studied mode of influence: private regulation, defined as voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior. We argue that firms can use modest private regulations as a political strategy to preempt more stringent public regulations. To test this hypothesis, we administered experiments to three groups that demand environmental regulations: voters, activists, and government officials. Our experiments revealed how each group responded to voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) by firms. Relatively modest VEPs dissuaded all three groups from seeking more draconian government regulations, a finding with important implications for social welfare. We observed these effects most strongly when all companies within an industry joined the voluntary effort. Our study documents an understudied source of corporate power, while also exposing the limits of private regulation as a strategy for influencing government policy.

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Saastamoinen, Jani, Helen Reijonen, and Timo Tammi. "SMEs' market orientation toward public sector customers in public procurement." International Journal of Public Sector Management 34, no. 1 (November 3, 2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpsm-05-2020-0131.

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PurposeThis paper investigates how the market orientation of SMEs toward public sector customers enables firms to participate and succeed in public procurement.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a survey-based methodology. First, the authors reconfigured an empirical construct of market orientation for private sector markets to measure the market orientation toward public sector customers. Then they conducted a survey of Finnish firms to test the construct and how it predicted firm performance in public procurement.FindingsThe authors find empirical support for firms to adopt a market orientation toward public sector customers. Their results suggest that customer and competitor orientations are positive predictors of participating and winning supply contracts in public sector tenders.Research limitations/implicationsSelf-reported survey data from a single country may limit the generalizability of results.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to report a market orientation toward public sector customers and describe how it is related to supplier performance in public procurement.

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Jing, Chao, William H. Kaempfer, and Anton D. Lowenberg. "A public choice model of the role of multinational firms in international relations." North American Journal of Economics and Finance 14, no. 1 (March 2003): 131–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1062-9408(02)00102-x.

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Gray, David, Frank Davies, and Kevin Blanchard. "Does use of public relations promote a higher growth rate in small firms?" Corporate Communications: An International Journal 9, no. 4 (December 2004): 294–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13563280410564039.

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Ki, Eyun-Jung, and Soo-Yeon Kim. "Ethics Codes of Public Relations Firms in the United States and South Korea." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 87, no. 2 (June 2010): 363–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769901008700209.

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Gu, Junjian. "Risk Assessment on Continued Public Health Threats: Evidence from China’s Stock Market." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 20 (October 21, 2020): 7682. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207682.

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Given the disturbing effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, we are motivated to examine whether the continued increase of the provincial public health threats affects the firms’ accumulative abnormal return. Using the 178,805 firm-day observations from Chinese listed firms from 10 January to 31 March 2020, we find that the accumulative abnormal return is significantly lower among firms located in the provinces where face the continued increase of new confirmed COVID-19 cases. The relations remain constant after several robustness tests. These findings suggest that investors concern about the potential risk when firms are located in the provinces with higher threats to public health. We also find that the negative effect of increasing public health threats on abnormal return is weaker for firms surrounded by a provincial environment with stronger information accessibility and economic growth. Overall, this study extends the literature by presenting systematic evidence on the effect of the continued increase of provincial public health threats on the market reaction in Chinese listed firms.

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Hsu, Pi‐Fang. "Developing a new model for selecting public relations firms in the high‐tech industry." Journal of Modelling in Management 1, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 156–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17465660610703486.

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PurposeThis study develops a new model for selecting public relations (PR) firms based on high‐tech industrial perceptions.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed model comprises two parts. The first part employs the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for criteria weighting. The second part applies the grey relational analysis (GRA) to rank alternatives and select the optimum PR firm in the high‐tech industry.FindingsAnalytical results indicate that high‐tech enterprises consider criteria in the following order of priority: media ability, campaign ability, strategic planning, service team, cost consciousness and relationship maintenance. Furthermore, this study uses the example of a renowned high‐tech communications manufacturer in Taiwan to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model in PR firm selection.Originality/valueThe proposed model helps high‐tech enterprises to effectively select PR firms, making it highly applicable in academia and commerce.

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White, Jon. "Innovation, research and development in professional service firms: A comparison of management and public relations consultancies, drawing implications for public relations practice." Journal of Communication Management 5, no. 1 (January 2001): 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13632540110806695.

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Ragozzino, Roberto, and Jeffrey J. Reuer. "Initial public offerings and the acquisition of entrepreneurial firms." Strategic Organization 5, no. 2 (May 2007): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127007079139.

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Thrall, Calvin. "Public-Private Governance Initiatives and Corporate Responses to Stakeholder Complaints." International Organization 75, no. 3 (2021): 803–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818321000199.

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AbstractMultinational firms operate in multiple national jurisdictions, making them difficult for any one government to regulate. For this reason the firms themselves are often in charge of their own regulation, increasingly in conjunction with international organizations by way of public-private governance initiatives. Prior research has claimed that such initiatives are too weak to meaningfully change firms’ behavior. Can public-private governance initiatives help firms self-regulate, even if they lack strong monitoring or enforcement mechanisms? I take two steps toward answering this question. First, I introduce a new measure of firms’ performance on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues: the extent to which the firms issue public responses to claims of misconduct from civil society actors. Second, I argue that public-private governance initiatives allow firms to benefit from the legitimacy of their public partners, lowering the reputational cost of transparent response. Employing novel data on firm responses to human rights allegations from the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, I find that membership in the largest and most prominent initiative, the United Nations Global Compact, significantly increases firms’ propensity to respond transparently to stakeholder allegations. These results suggest a limited but important role for public-private initiatives in global governance.

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한정희 and 변상규. "An empirical study on cooperative relations among University, public agencies, public research institutes and firms for innovation activities of regional firms - focusing on trust variable-." Korean Public Management Review 23, no. 3 (September 2009): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.24210/kapm.2009.23.3.006.

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Nekongo-Nielsen, Haaveshe Ndeutalala, and Elizabeth Ndeukumwa Ngololo. "Principals’ experiences in the implementation of the English Language Proficiency Programme in Namibia." Journal of Educational Administration 58, no. 1 (October 22, 2019): 81–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-06-2018-0113.

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Purpose Namibian principals are usually placed in leadership positions without orientation and are found to lack skills to supervise teachers in delivering instruction using the English language. Studies conducted elsewhere in the world found that effective school leadership is needed for the success of professional development programmes. The purpose of this paper is to explore principals’ lived experiences with regard to their roles in the implementation of the English Language Proficiency Programme (ELPP). Design/methodology/approach This paper followed a qualitative inquiry with multiple case study designs to explore principals’ lived experiences during the implementation of the ELPP. Ten schools were selected for the analysis, two from each of the five regions. The schools were selected on the basis of remoteness, the total number of teachers who participated in the ELPP, school phases (i.e. primary and combined) and pre-test scores. Principals were interviewed using exploratory open-ended questions, and data analysis produced five categories under which the results were presented. Findings The findings indicate that principals applied their individual logic to accommodate and implement the programme. They applied their individual productive leadership habitus to contextualise ELPP activities to ease their workload and appear corporative. Principals had significant influence on teacher learning and ensured successful implementation of a ministerial programme. Moreover, their leadership skills influenced the ways in which teachers received instruction and created a conducive learning environment. Owing to principals’ administrative, instructional and transformational leadership, many teachers participated and transcended upward and some were declared proficient in English. Research limitations/implications This study research the effectiveness of leadership regarding English professional development programmes in achieving goals, explore power relations between school principals and education officials when developing and implementing professional development programmes and establish more efficient ways of providing a better leadership model for professional development programmes to achieve goals. Practical implications This paper was limited to a few principals at rural schools in selected regions, therefore findings could not be generalised. Social implications There is a need for creating opportunities for interactions among all stakeholders who are involved in the development and implementation of English proficiency programmes and to build power relations and work as a team to benefit schools. In order to enhance programme implementation and improve learning outcomes, there is also a need to provide feedback at intervals and find solutions to challenges as a team. Originality/value Placing principals in situations without orientation triggered the need for specific leadership logic and particularities to be applied in a context for the success of the programme, which resulted in participation of more teachers in the ELPP. They applied their particularities and productive habitus through administrative, instructional and transformational leadership to enhance learning. Principals appointed English language teachers to instruct and mentor others, and consequently enabled some principals and teachers to exit the programme. Principals achieved these short wins upon realising that one has to cooperate with the authority to ensure achieving desired outcomes.

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Danowski, James A., George A. Barnett, and Matthew H. Friedland. "Interorganizational Networks via Shared Public Relations Firms’ Centrality, Diversification, Media Coverage, and Publics’ Images." Annals of the International Communication Association 10, no. 1 (January 1987): 808–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23808985.1987.11678676.

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Al-Yasin, Yasin, and Ali A. Dashti. "Foreign Countries and U.S. Public Relations Firms: The Case of Three Persian Gulf States." Journal of Promotion Management 14, no. 3-4 (February 26, 2009): 355–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10496490802637713.

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Anderson-Gough, Fiona, Christopher Grey, and Keith Robson. "“Helping them to forget..”: the organizational embedding of gender relations in public audit firms." Accounting, Organizations and Society 30, no. 5 (July 2005): 469–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2004.05.003.

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Kettunen, Erja. "On MNC-Host Government Relations: How Finnish Firms Respond to National and Regional Policies in ASEAN." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 34, no. 2 (March 22, 2017): 54–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v34i2.5306.

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Combining literature from international political economy, international business, and institutional approaches to business studies, this article discusses foreign firms' relationship with the public sector in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the perceptions of the firms on host country policies toward foreign direct investments (FDI) and the impact of global financial crises and regional economic integration on the firms' strategies. The multinational company (MNC)-host government relationship is seen as a cooperative and continual bargaining within a specific institutional framework. Based on interviews with managers of subsidiaries originating from Finland, it is found that the regulatory environment of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries varies from easy to difficult with regard to policies, bureaucracy and protectionism. These pose institutional constraints for the firms, with additional economic constraints caused by global financial crises. Contrary to expectations, the ASEAN free trade agreement does not figure in the firms' investment strategies. This is explained by three findings: most of the firms serve the domestic host country market; the firms operate global rather than ASEAN-wide regional production chains; the firms represent industries that are not typical in Southeast Asian regional production networks.

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Hanssen, F. Andrew. "Appointed Courts, Elected Courts, and Public Utility Regulation: Judicial Independence and the Energy Crisis." Business and Politics 1, no. 2 (August 1999): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bap.1999.1.2.179.

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This paper investigates the importance of variations in judicial institutions after a ‘shock’ has unraveled a regulatory status quo. State court decisions involving utility regulation are examined. Appointed state courts are generally agreed to be more independent than elected state courts. Before 1970, the primary participants in the process of utility regulation (and thus its largest beneficiaries) were the regulated firms and their commercial customers; afterwards, utility regulation increasingly accommodated consumer groups as well. Certain scholars have proposed that independent courts help keep administrative agencies from deviating from the original wishes of their political principals, and thus might be expected to slow down such changes in regulatory approach (which occurred with few alterations to the governing statutes). Other scholars have proposed instead that independent courts can decide as discretion dictates, and may thus lead such changes. The results of this analysis provide support for the latter view: controlling for other factors (such as partisan affiliation), more independent appointed courts sided more often with consumer groups while less independent elected courts sided more often with regulated firms and their large commercial customers.

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Compston, Hugh. "The network of global corporate control: implications for public policy." Business and Politics 15, no. 3 (October 2013): 357–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bap-2012-0049.

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To what extent do transnational companies (TNCs) have the capacity to influence public policy? This article uses the results of a major new study of TNC ownership to shed light on this issue. It is found that TNC ownership and control is extremely concentrated and that there is an inner core of firms with strong co-ownership links that is overrepresented in the membership of major business organizations. It is concluded that these factors enhance the potential for TNCs in general, and core TNCs in particular, to influence public policy.

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Amel-Zadeh, Amir, Alexandra Scherf, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Creating Firm Disclosures." Journal of Financial Reporting 4, no. 2 (September 2019): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/jfir-52578.

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Managers expend significant time and effort preparing disclosures about firm performance and strategy. Although prior literature has explored how variation in the style and presentation of disclosures impacts investors' perceptions of firms, little is known about how firms actually create these disclosures and how this process impacts presentation. Based on field data collected from nearly 200 firms, we show that there is considerable variation in who prepares disclosures, when they are prepared, and the amount of effort expended by different types of managers (e.g., legal, public relations/marketing, finance, investor relations, senior leadership). We find that these differences in organizational processes are associated with differences in the structure, style, and tone of 10-Ks and conference calls. Ultimately, our investigation begins to illuminate how individual managerial efforts vary across firms and contribute to differences in public disclosures.

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Nahm, Jonas. "Renewable futures and industrial legacies: Wind and solar sectors in China, Germany, and the United States." Business and Politics 19, no. 1 (March 2017): 68–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2016.5.

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AbstractThis article develops an explanation for patterns of industrial specialization in emerging high-technology industries through a comparative analysis of wind and solar sectors in China, Germany, and the United States. Although governments have held similar industrial policy goals in the support of renewable energy industries, firms in all three economies have established distinct innovative capabilities in response to the policies of the state. This article shows that firms utilize both legacy institutions and engage in relational learning in global networks to carve out distinct niches in emerging industries. Based on an original dataset of more than 200 firm-level interviews, the article suggests that the rise of global value chains has widened the space for national diversity in industrial specialization. Firms no longer have to establish the full range of skills required to bring an idea from lab to market, but can specialize and collaborate with others. In this context, firms respond to industrial policy by incrementally building on existing industrial capabilities and by relying on familiar public resources and institutions, even in emerging industries. These findings point to the role of industrial legacies in shaping firms' positions in global value chains and show that firms are active agents in maintaining distinct industrial specializations and domestic institutions under conditions of globalization.

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Vanden Bergh, Richard G., and Guy L. F. Holburn. "Targeting Corporate Political Strategy: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Accounting Industry." Business and Politics 9, no. 2 (August 2007): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1469-3569.1202.

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By analyzing the interaction between a business firm and multiple government institutions (including a regulatory agency, an executive and a bicameral legislature), we develop predictions about how firms target their political strategies at different branches of government when seeking more favorable public policies. The core of our argument is that firms will target their resources at the institution that is ‘pivotal’ in the policy-making process. We develop a simple framework, drawing on the political science literature, which identifies pivotal institutions in different types of political environments. We find empirical support for our thesis in an analysis of how U.S. accounting firms shifted their political campaign contributions between the House and Senate in response to the threat of new regulations governing auditor independence during the 1990s.

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Heritier, Adrienne, Anna K. Mueller-Debus, and Christian R. Thauer. "The Firm as an Inspector: Private Ordering and Political Rules." Business and Politics 11, no. 4 (December 2009): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1469-3569.1273.

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With increasing fragmentation of worldwide production chains and the corresponding contracting relations between companies, the “firm as an inspector” has become a frequent phenomenon. Buyer firms deploy supervising activities over their suppliers' products and production processes in order to ensure their compliance with regulatory standards, thereby taking on tasks commonly performed by public authorities. Why would a firm engage in such activities? In this article we will analyze the conditions under which firms play the role of an inspector vis-à-vis their sub-contractor firms to guarantee compliance with quality and environmental regulations. We develop a theoretical argument based on transaction cost economics and institutionalism to offer hypothetical answers to this question and provide an empirical assessment of our hypotheses.

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Jang, Ha-Yong. "Cultural differences in an interorganizational network: Shared public relations firms among Japanese and American companies." Public Relations Review 23, no. 4 (December 1997): 327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0363-8111(97)90049-7.

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Panigyrakis, George. "Public Relations Managers' Role and Effectiveness in Product and Service Firms in Six European Countries." Journal of Promotion Management 7, no. 1/2 (March 7, 2002): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j057v07n01_03.

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Demidova, Olga, and Andrei Yakovlev. "State-Business relations and participation of firms in public procurement in russia: An empirical study." Journal of Public Procurement 12, no. 4 (March 2012): 547–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jopp-12-04-2012-b004.

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Marlow, Susan. "Formality and Informality in Employment Relations: The Implications for Regulatory Compliance by Smaller Firms." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 21, no. 4 (August 2003): 531–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c0318.

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Since 1997, there has been a notable growth in the degree and complexity of employment regulation. Such regulation has arisen from the intention of contemporary Labour governments to promote greater ‘fairness at work’, and their adoption of European employment directives. It has been established that meeting compliance is a greater burden for smaller firms. Hence the author aims to consider compliance with employment regulations by smaller firms, and this issue is explored through an empirical study of labour management in smaller firms based upon responses from 44 firm owners or managers and 71 of their employees.

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Popa, Mircea. "Uncovering the structure of public procurement transactions." Business and Politics 21, no. 3 (May 10, 2019): 351–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2019.1.

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AbstractClose ties between government authorities and private firms are often the object of suspicion, but a systematic understanding of when they arise is still missing. This article uses machine learning tools to analyze a large dataset of public contracts from across Europe, in order to identify the conditions under which close connections, defined both in terms of repeated interaction, as well as geographical dispersion, appear. Previous theoretical results suggest that close ties should emerge as an enforcement mechanism in settings characterized by weak outside enforcement, such as those involving corruption. Results from random forest models show support for this hypothesis, along with identifying other structural determinants of the outcome. The most striking finding is that even after accounting for numerous potential confounders, major differences in terms of average diversity levels between countries persist, and these differences map onto an indicator of governance quality and corruption, but not at all on income per capita. These findings point to the centrality of the structure of interactions between private and public actors for understanding governance outcomes.

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Yang, Mu-Li. "Transformational leadership and Taiwanese public relations practitioners' job satisfaction and organizational commitment." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 40, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2012.40.1.31.

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The effects of transformational leadership on the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of public relations (PR) practitioners were examined within the context of PR companies in Taiwan. PR practitioners (600) were randomly selected from 159 PR firms located in Taipei and sampled. There were 305 usable questionnaires (50% validity rate). Regression analyses indicated that transformational leadership dimensions did have a significant impact on the job satisfaction of PR practitioners. Furthermore, in this study job satisfaction was found to be a mediator of the effects of transformational leadership on the organizational commitment of PR practitioners. The results of this study may provide a managerial reference to assist in enhancing the job satisfaction of PR practitioners as well as their commitment to the organization through improved organizational leadership.

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Shafuda, Christopher P. P., and Utpal Kumar De. "Changing public policy on expenditure in Namibia after independence and its impact on healthcare and education." International Journal of Public Policy 15, no. 5/6 (2020): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijpp.2020.10036298.

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De, Utpal Kumar, and Christopher P. P. Shafuda. "Changing public policy on expenditure in Namibia after independence and its impact on healthcare and education." International Journal of Public Policy 15, no. 5/6 (2020): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijpp.2020.113708.

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Brown, Richard S. "How do firms compete in the non-market? The process of political capability building." Business and Politics 18, no. 3 (October 2016): 263–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bap-2015-0019.

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This paper contributes to both corporate political activity (CPA) research and capabilities theory research by offering models that better describe the process that managers undertake to nurture a political capability. This is done through the interplay of four factors inherent in political actions, namely (i) corporate structure, (ii) firm-government linkages, (iii) political access and (iv) public policy pressure. Additionally, recognizing that political capability attainment is not a binary endeavor, I offer a political capability continuum to better categorize the magnitude by which differing firms allocate resources toward molding public policy. This paper adds to the scant literature on management-focused CPA research that integrates the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and political action research.

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Kitchen, Philip J. "Public Relations: A Rationale for Its Development and Usage within UK Fast moving Consumer Goods Firms:." European Journal of Marketing 27, no. 7 (August 1993): 53–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03090569310040352.

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