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Bribery Beyond Borders: The Story of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Severin Wirz, 2025

https://www.amazon.com/Bribery-Beyond-Borders-Foreign-Practices-ebook/dp/B0G274VH54

This book by Severin Wirz, an attorney specializing in U.S. and international anti-corruption law, traces the origins, enforcement, and global impact of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It explores how anti-bribery law reshaped corporate conduct, compliance systems, and international business norms, illustrating how legal accountability mechanisms influence global markets and corporate political behavior.

Notes on Related Topics

Legal Risk or Uncertainty (A) – FCPA enforcement creates significant legal exposure for firms.
Reputational Risks (A) – Corruption cases severely damage trust and brand value.

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Political Risk and Corporate Performance: Mapping Impact

EY & Wharton ESG Initiative, 2022

This report analyzes how political risk—ranging from regulatory shifts and policy unpredictability to geopolitical tensions—affects corporate valuations, operating costs, supply chains, and long-term investment. It introduces a framework connecting political events to financial consequences, urging companies to integrate political-risk analytics into strategic planning, governance, and ESG-related disclosures to strengthen resilience.

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Wharton ESG Initiative & EY

Political Risk and Corporate Performance: Mapping Impact

EY & Wharton ESG Initiative, 2022

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Rebuilding Trust in American Civic Institutions

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy and Kevin Johnson, 2022

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ReportPrinciples for Responsible Investment

Responsible political engagement: stewardship practices and challenges

2022

In partnership with Chronos Sustainability, this article reflects a survey about (i) how investors identify and assess political engagement activities; (ii) how investors integrate political engagement into their stewardship activities; and (iii) challenges to engaging on responsible political engagement with investees.

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ArticleHarvard Business Review

Strategy in a Hyperpolitical World

Roger L. Martin & Martin Reeves, 2022

Based on the fact that the assumption that business and politics can and even should be kept separate is no longer realistic, the authors outline steps that effective leaders should take to ensure strategic decisions in the space, which include: (1) develop robust principles to guide strategic choices; (2) address ethical issues early; (3) consistently communicate and implement their choices; (4) engage with and beyond the industry to shape the context; and (5) learn from mistakes to make better choices in the future.

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Systemic Risk: Review and Opportunities for Research, Policy and Practice

Jana Sillmann et al., 2022

This briefing note defines systemic risk as cascading, cross-sectoral impacts that threaten the stability of interconnected global systems. Drawing on climate, disaster, and environmental science, it argues for integrating systems thinking into policy, data, and governance. It calls for anticipatory, inclusive, and transdisciplinary risk management that bridges research and decision-making, emphasizing relational information, adaptive learning, and resilience dividends.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

The Bridge-Building and Healthy Self-Governance Movement

Debilyn Molineaux and Rev. Dr. F. Willis Johnson of The Bridge Alliance, 2022

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WebsiteThe Capitals Coalition

The Capitals Coalition

2022

The Capitals Coalition is a global network that helps businesses recognize how their success is directly or indirectly supported by natural, social, and human capital—like clean air, skilled workers, and public trust. It offers practical frameworks, case studies, and tools to help companies measure, value, and better manage these dependencies for more sustainable, informed decisions.

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The Human Prosperity Project: Essays on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism from the Hoover Institution

2022

This volume explores the promise of free markets to deliver prosperity and well-being—and the social, political, and institutional conditions required to sustain that promise. It shows why businesses have a stake in helping maintain those conditions through responsible political engagement.

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ArticleMIT Sloan Management Review

The Importance of Corporate Political Responsibility

Andrew Winston, Elizabeth Doty & Thomas Lyon, 2022

This article discusses how businesses can thrive by achieving a net positive impact on people and the planet, and avoiding achieving returns by creating problems for people and planet. Calls on businesses to recognize that investing in healthy systems -- economic, civic and natural -- is the key to his positive impact.

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The investor case for responsible political engagement

2022

PRI sets out to create the case for investors to encourage responsible corporate political engagement. PRI shares precedent-setting principles followed by detailing the risks faced from irresponsible political engagement practices (e.g. the revolving door), which burden companies, investors, and society alike.

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The Just Transition: Framework for Company Action

Council for Inclusive Capitalism, 2022

This framework is a comprehensive guide for institutions to justly transition to net-zero emissions, including four core pillars and 20 building blocks that provide practical examples for implementation, with alignment to just transition assessment methodologies.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

The Meaning of “Net Positive”

Andrew Winston, co-author of Net Positive, 2022

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BookBloomsbury

The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicized World

Joe Zammit-Lucia, 2022

Joe Zammit‑Lucia argues that in today’s world, politics and business are deeply connected, and companies need strong “political antennae”—a keen understanding of societal values, regulations, and consumer expectations—to succeed. Drawing on global case studies, he shows how pressures from stakeholders, investors, and regulators require firms to embed political awareness into their purpose, strategy, and daily operations to build trust and resilience.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

The Opportunity to Renew Civic Space

Debilyn Molineaux and Rev. Dr. F. Willis Johnson of The Bridge Alliance, 2022

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The Role of Business in Non-Partisan Democratic Reform

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy and Kevin Johnson, 2022

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Toxic Polarization & Its Causes

Kristin Hansen of Civic Health Project with Tara Leweling of Allstate, 2022

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ReportFCLT/McKinsey

Walking the Talk: Valuing a Multi-stakeholder Strategy

2022

This report recognizes that the stakeholder environment has shifted for many companies to encompass a broader range of stakeholders, and provides thoughts on how companies can take a truly long-term view of stakeholder interests.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

What Companies Can Start, Continue, or Stop Doing

Debilyn Molineaux and Rev. Dr. F. Willis Johnson of The Bridge Alliance, 2022

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Why CPR Matters to Shareholders

Tyler Duvelis of The Conservative Energy Network, 2022

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