The Effects of Governments on
Management and Organization
Abstrac
We review and integrate existing research from organization theory, strategy,
organizational behavior, economics, sociology and political science on the
effects of governments on organization and management, with a focus on how
governing ideology and government capability influence independent organizations’
forms, strategies, and their participants’ behavior. When brought
together these works suggest significant research opportunities in the fields of
management and organization, as well as new perspectives on public policy
challenges. Several avenues of potentially profitable empirical research include
more attention to the influence of government on corporate strategies, more