Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

Introduction

Political behavior is the application of influence in business, and depending upon how that influence is used, it either generates functional or dysfunctional consequences for individuals and organizations. Political behavior may be precipitated by a combination of individual and contextual factors and is not necessarily viewed as self-serving.¹ Management from a political perspective characterizes the workplace as a miniature society with politics pervading all managerial work and individual managers being viewed as “knowledgeable human agents.” Influence reinforces the theoretical and practical importance of building alliances and networks of cooperative relationships. Internal politics is inevitable in all organizations large ...