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Content -- What do we really Mean by Power and Politics? A Review of the Literature -- The Study of Power and Politics in Management -- Definitions of Power and Politics -- What Do we Know about Power and Politics? -- Conclusion: The Research Challenge -- A Systems View of Organizational Politics -- Abstract -- A Systems View of Organizational Politics -- The Theoretical Context of the Political Subsystem: The Negotiated Order -- The Role of the Political Subsystem and the Areas It Addresses -- The Elements that Configure the Political Subsystem, -- Conclusion -- Temptations and Dilemmas in the Interpretive Perspective on Organizational Politics -- Organizational Politics from Multiple Perspectives -- A Comparison of Functionalist and Interpretive Perspectives on Politics -- A Case Study of Organizational Budget Setting -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Towards the Business Politics Approach and the Field of Research -- Types of Political Activities -- The Different Meanings of Policy and Politics -- Central Focus of the Business Politics Approach -- Areas of Investigation -- Conceptual Framework: Relevance and further Development -- Towards a System of Business Political Goal Formulation -- The Elements and Processes of Business Political Goal Formulation -- The Influence of Disposable Power Basis on the Business Political Scope of Action -- The Consequences of Alternative Business Political Actions -- Concluding Remarks -- Conflict Relationships in Organizations A Concept of Measurement -- Why Measurement of Conflicts? -- Previous Methods of Measurement -- Measuring Conflicting Relationships -- Summary and Conclusion -- Conflict-Handling in Industry-Wide Codes -- Definition and Contents of Industry-Wide Codes -- Causes of Conflict in Industry-Wide Codes -- Alternative Methods of Conflict-Handling -- Environmental Delimitation -- Methods of Goal Delimitation -- Conclusion -- The Political Consequences of Organizational Cultures: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures -- Politics and Culture -- Political Consequences -- Information Processing -- Cultural Patterns -- A Typology of Organization Culture -- Implications or Managers -- Conclusion -- The Business-Political Dimension of the Internationalization of Enterprises -- A Case Example of Internationalization -- The Distinction between Strategic and Business Political Decisions of Internationalization -- The Apolitical Approach of Transaction-Cost Theory -- The Perspective of the Business-Politics Concept -- Business-Political Alternatives of Conflict-Handling.