Domain Maintenance as an Objective of Business Political Activity: An Expanded Typology

Conceptually, business political activity may have three major objectives: (1) to gain special monetary and anticompetitive favors from government-domain management; (2) to manage environmental turbulence created by governmental threats to the legitimacy of organizational goals and purposes-domain defense; and (3) to manage similar threats to the methods by which organizations pursue their goals and purposes-domain maintenance.This paper incorporates the political objective of domain maintenance into the existing typology of the strategic objectives of environmental management.