ABSTRACT
Corporate political clout is an amalgamated notion. It is not exactly influence and not exactly political power yet composed of each. This chapter examines the sources of political clout, conditions indispensable to exercising it, and what clout outcomes are leveraging for a firm. It examines clout intervention cost for firms, the types of political clout that firms can exercise, and whether the type of firm— First Mover, Steady, or Survival—has an advantage in the accumulation and the use of political clout. The chapter concludes with a number of corporate political clout behavioral propositions.
