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220 gap statements mined from Political Influence and Corporate Strategies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,301 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • However, relatively little is known about when firms decide to reduce their political connections.

    Judicial Independence and Political Connection: Evidence From China · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should examine how firms in other nations employ market and nonmarket strategies by exploring the tradeoffs and complementarities of political and social NMS.

    Aligning market and nonmarket strategy to enhance performance · 2025 · DOI

  • In what ways, if at all, does transparency influence how politicians cooperate with interest organizations? While there are convincing normative arguments stressing the importance of transparency in politics, empirical evidence for how transparency in practice affects how politicians reason regarding cooperating with interest organizations is scarce.

    Political Judgment Above Transparency? Results From a Mixed Method Study About Politicians' Close Cooperation With Interest Organizations · 2025 · DOI

  • With participation in electoral politics limited, asylum seekers rely on lobbying to influence policy, but the factors which facilitate or constrain this process remain unclear.

    Quality not quantity: Lobbying institutions and the influence of asylum rights groups · 2024 · DOI

  • Accessing key decision-makers in national capitals can be challenging. The rotating leadership system can create uncertainty for interest groups. The lack of transparency in lobbying activities can make it difficult to study interest group behavior.

    Lobbying and rotating leadership · 2026 · DOI

  • The coefficient capturing the effect of increased lobbying activity may be unrealistically large. The analysis is limited to the European Union. The paper does not account for other factors that may influence economic activity.

    Lobbying and rotating leadership · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to examine the ways in which interest groups influence policy and the implications of this influence.

    A Renaissance in State Interest Group Studies · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to explore the role of interest groups in state politics. It should examine the ways in which interest groups influence policy and the implications of this influence.

    A Renaissance in State Interest Group Studies · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need for further research on interaction between social conflict and formal decision-making procedures – on how social conflict challenges existing institutions (Cuppen, 2018).

    Strategies “for” versus strategies “against”. The influence of rural residents on the planning of locally desired and undesired investments · 2026 · DOI

  • The research highlights the need for a new approach to understanding the complex relationships between actors in the policy subsystem.

    Analyzing Advocacy Coalitions in Brazilian Fiscal Policy: a Value-Focused Thinking and Cognitive Mapping Approach · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the implications of the study's findings for firms and organizations that hire lobbyists. Further research could investigate the role of other factors, such as lobbying firm characteristics, in influencing the value of lobbyists' connections and expertise. The study's findings could be used to inform the development of new strategies for effective lobbying.

    When do connections outweigh expertise? Issue-domain resource dependence and the value of lobbyists · 2026 · DOI

  • Prior work has not fully examined how differences across issue domains influence the value of lobbyists' connections and expertise. The study seeks to address this gap by using a resource-dependence framework to examine the value of lobbyists' connections and expertise.

    When do connections outweigh expertise? Issue-domain resource dependence and the value of lobbyists · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of how think tanks respond to political crises and social transformation. The need to develop the concept of intellectual infrastructure. The gap in knowledge about the concentration of intellectual authority in middle-income countries.

    Think Tanks and Political Crises in Chile, 2011–2022; or, The Crystallization of the Intellectual Infrastructure in a Middle-Income Country · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to clarify the relationship between interests and knowledge.

    How do interests matter? · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the risk of hold-up and the need for mechanisms to mitigate this risk. The paper also notes the challenge of measuring the impact of political connections on firms' outsourcing intensity.

    Political connections, contract imperfections, and firm outsourcing · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for a stylized model to illustrate the mechanisms underlying this relationship.

    Political connections, contract imperfections, and firm outsourcing · 2026 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need to investigate the simultaneous differential effects of political connections on domestic and international performance. The authors argue that prior work has focused primarily on the benefits of political connections, neglecting their potential risks and drawbacks.

    Double-Edged Political Connections: The Effects on Domestic and International Performance Under Weak Institutions · 2026 · DOI

  • One challenge is the difficulty in obtaining valid measures of news visibility for interest groups with both national and international branches. Another challenge is the need to ensure that the news coverage of national branches is accurately measured.

    Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage · 2026 · DOI

  • The research aims to address the question of whether security-affiliated directors reflect political patronage or institutionally embedded network structures.

    Beyond political patronage institutional persistence of military business networks in an emerging market · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing work is largely silent on how executive gender influences the management of political risk. The omission of executive gender in the study of political risk is important because political risk differs from standard business risk in ways that impact gender-based differences in decision-making.

    How Do Female Executives Handle Political Risk? · 2026 · DOI

  • The data confirm the observation made elsewhere that ‘organizations vary widely in their inclination to litigate’…

    Litigation: a strategy of advocacy? Evidence from a survey among organized interests in Germany · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigating the impact of female executives on political risk in other countries - Examining the relationship between female executives and political risk in different industries - Analyzing the effect of female executives on firm performance in corrupt…

    How Do Female Executives Handle Political Risk? · 2026 · DOI

  • The study is based on a single case study, - The sample size is limited to 45 faculty members, - Alternative readings of the revision cannot be…

    Electoral incentives when the stakes are low: a case study from an economics department · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the role of transparency in limiting targeted redistribution, - Studies could examine the balance between broadly shared benefits and policies targeted toward specific constituencies in different institutional…

    Electoral incentives when the stakes are low: a case study from an economics department · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests that future research could examine the generalizability of the findings to other mature Western democracies with similar settings - Further research could investigate the mechanisms by which organizational ties influence media…

    Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Relatively little is known about when firms decide to reduce their political connections (“Judicial Independence and Political Connection: Evidence From China”, 2026); (2) The lack of transparency in lobbying activities can make it difficult to study interest group behavior (“Lobbying and rotating leadership”, 2026); (3) Future research should continue to explore the role of interest groups in state politics (“A Renaissance in State Interest Group Studies”, 2026); (4) Future research could examine the implications of the study's findings for firms and organizations that hire lobbyists (“When do connections outweigh expertise? Issue-domain resource dependence and…”, 2026); (5) The lack of understanding of how think tanks respond to political crises and social transformation (“Think Tanks and Political Crises in Chile, 2011–2022; or, The Crystallization…”, 2026). 220 gap statements have been mined from Political Influence and Corporate Strategies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,301 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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