Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The firm as political actor and a theory of private policymaking
- 3 Unveiling the public roots of private policymaking
- 4 The public, the state, and corporate environmentalism
- 5 Public opinion and gay rights in the workplace
- 6 Total executive compensation and regulatory threat
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Data sources and variable measurement by chapter
- References
- Index
Appendix: Data sources and variable measurement by chapter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The firm as political actor and a theory of private policymaking
- 3 Unveiling the public roots of private policymaking
- 4 The public, the state, and corporate environmentalism
- 5 Public opinion and gay rights in the workplace
- 6 Total executive compensation and regulatory threat
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Data sources and variable measurement by chapter
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3
Firm competitors' policies: The lagged annual mean value of the dependent variable for the other members of Standard and Poor's (S&P 500) firms in the two-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code that the firm belonged to. Source: Calculated using kld stats and compustat data.
Firm employee count (logged): The log of the annual count of the firm's employees. Source: compustat (v29).
Firm institutional ownership: The annual percentage of a firm's outstanding shares held by institutional investors, as reported in the company's most recent proxy statement. Source: The Corporate Library.
Firm market share: The annual percentage of all sales in the three-digit SIC code that the firm belonged to made by the firm. Source: Calculated using compustat (v12).
Firm one-year return: The annual percentage change in the firm's share price, corrected for stock splits and dividends. Source: Calculated using the compustat Prices, Dividends, and Earnings data set.
Firm political capacity: An annual Guttman scale of the firm's annual political involvement, calculated by summing whether the firm had a federal political action committee (PAC), gave soft money donations, or had a registered federal lobbyist. The three-item scale had a Cornbach's α equal to 0.68. Sources: Calculated using Federal Election Commission filings (PACs), the Center for Responsive Politics' database (soft money), and the US Senate disclosure database (registered lobbyists).
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- Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business , pp. 157 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012