Exploring how firms’ strategic political actions are organised to capture and share external information – The case of Alpha Plc

Through a case study of the government affairs (GA) activities of a large UK-based manufacturing firm, we explore how the differentiation and integration of boundary-spanning GA units may affect their ability to capture external political information and share it with the rest of the business. Mobilising insights from organisational design theory, we demonstrate that changes in the autonomy, specialisation and formal coordination of the firm's...