...Eldon Y. Li; Eldon Y. Li Purpose – This aim of this article is to review the 12 manuscripts accepted into the special issue of “Corporate Politics, Philanthropy and Governance” in Chinese Management Studies. It explains basic concepts, provides brief introduction to each manuscript and presents...

...Eldon Y. Li; Bradley Olson; Yongjian Bao; Satyanarayana Parayitam Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects trustworthiness can have on the perception of organizational politics and organizational outcomes. Most studies on organizational politics examine the negative effects...

...Michèle E. M. Akoorie; Xinming Deng; Zhilong Tian; Jianfeng Li; Muhammad Abrar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively investigate the combined influence of a firm's political connection and diversification on corporate performance, and to explore whether firm's political...

...Jianfeng Wu; Menita Liu Cheng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to adopt a contingency perspective and examine the impact of managerial political connections on access to a specific external resource – government subsidies – in China. Design/methodology/approach This study proposes...