As a nonmarket strategy scholar, I am interested in the processes through which firms obtain improved governmental outcomes. At the same time, my background in economic sociology inspires me to consider aspects of firm-government interactions beyond the firm. In other words, I also study the ways in which individuals shape firm engagement in corporate political activity (CPA), as well as the ways in which they respond to corporate political efforts. Moreover, my work sheds light on the negative consequences of firm engagement in CPA for societies.

In terms of specific CPA tactics, I am especially interested in revolving doors and lobbying, which I study in both U.S. and global contexts. My articles published in Organization Science, Journal of Management and Business and Society, as well as other working papers, include conceptual, review and empirical papers; the latter utilize of a mix of different methodologies (e.g., quantitative archival data, large-scale surveys, as well as interviews).

PUBLICATIONS

Katic, I. and Kim, J. 2023. “Caught in the Revolving Door: Firm-Government Employee Mobility as a Fleeting Regulatory Advantage.” Organization Science. In press.

Katic, I. and Hillman, A. 2023. “Corporate Political Strategy, Reimagined: Expanding the Agenda for Scholars of Firm Political Behavior.” Journal of Management (Annual Review Issue), 49 (6), 1911-1938.

Katic, I. and Ingram, P. 2018. “Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Towards an Understanding of the Relationship and Its Mechanisms.” Business and Society (Special Issue on Economic Inequality), 57 (6), 1010-1044.

WORKING PAPERS

Katic, I. and Mizruchi, M. “Economic Concentration, Political Influence, and Societal Legitimacy: The Private Benefits and Public Costs of Concentrated Economic Power.”

Katic, I. and Mizruchi, M. “Enemy of the (Democratic) State: The Relation Between the Concentration of Economic Power and Democracy, 1988-2009.”  

Katic, I. and Occhiuto, N. “Product Over Politics: Entrepreneurial Firms and Lobbying.”

Occhiuto, N. and Katic, I. “Disrupting Corporate Political Strategy: Toward a New Theory of Start-Up Political Behavior.”

Katic, I. “Who Knows What vs. Who Knows Whom: Antecedents of Employee Mobility between U.S. Independent Regulatory Commissions and the Private Sector, 1887-2000.”

Katic, I. “Bringing the Regulatory Commission Back In: Firm-to-Government Employee Mobility as Support-Building and Learning.”