The Business Firm As a Political Coalition

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March Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 24, Number 4Nov., 1962 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381600016169 Views: 364Total views on this site Citations: 343Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Emil Husted, Mona Moufahim, Martin Fredriksson Political Parties and Organization Studies: The party as a critical case of organizing, Organization Studies 43, no.88 (Apr 2021): 1327–1341.https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406211010979Nilesh Saraf, Srabana Dasgupta, Daniela P Blettner How do managerial perceptions of performance feedback affect innovation?, Strategic Organization 20, no.33 (Jun 2021): 451–480.https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270211019484Dongil Daniel Keum Managerial political power and the reallocation of resources in the internal capital market, Strategic Management Journal 31 (Jul 2022).https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3440Simona Settepanella, Gennaro Amendola, Luigi Marengo, Connor Minto Divide and conquer: the engineering of delegation, Computational Management Science 39 (Jun 2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10287-022-00428-wThibault Parmentier, Pr. 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