ABSTRACT
Corporate political behavior is nothing if not an enigma. Explaining and deciphering it even with hindsight and even if bracketed by a known catalytic event is not an exercise in clarity. Was it the personality of a single corporate executive that reversed a company’s anti-politics corporate culture or did leadership need a firm existential threat to do so? Can a firm really orchestrate its political positioning or does a company just stumble into political advantage? Can firms ever get enough political capital or do they not need it anyway?
