Corporate political strategies have been used extensively by firms attempting to shape their political environments. In this context, access to targeted policymakers is essential to allow their deployment. Thus, we propose to study the determinants of access to the European Commission representatives. This research builds on the resource-based view (RBV) of firms to argue that political knowledge is a valuable resource to increase firms' degree of access to the European Commission. To test our hypotheses, we built a novel dataset merging firms characteristics with lobbying meetings information, and analyze it through negative binomial regression. The results suggest the importance of political knowledge, emphasizing that it may represent a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This study highlights interesting information that broadens the understanding of corporate political strategies in the European Union.

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欧洲的企业政治战略：企业进入欧盟委员会的决定因素

公司政治战略已被试图塑造其政治环境的公司广泛使用。在这种情况下，接触有针对性的政策制定者对于他们的部署至关重要。因此，我们建议研究访问欧盟委员会代表的决定因素。本研究建立在企业资源基础观点 (RBV) 的基础上，认为政治知识是一种宝贵的资源，可以提高企业进入欧盟委员会的程度。为了检验我们的假设，我们构建了一个新的数据集，将公司特征与游说会议信息相结合，并通过负二项式回归对其进行分析。结果表明政治知识的重要性，强调它可能代表可持续竞争优势的来源。