TY - JFULL AU - Monika Kulikowska-Pawlak and Katarzyna Bratnicka-Myƛliwiec and Tomasz Ingram PY - 2017/12/ TI - The Bright Side of Organizational Politics as a Driver of Firm Competitiveness: The Mediating Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 2624 EP - 2632 VL - 11 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10008087 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 131, 2017 N2 - This study seeks to contribute to the literature on firm competitiveness by advancing the perspective of organizational politics that views this process as a driver which creates identifiable differences in firm performance. The hypothesized relationships were tested on the basis of data from 355 Polish medium and large-sized enterprises. Data were analyzed using correlation analysis, EFA and robustness tests. The main result of the conducted analyses proved the coexistence, previously examined in the literature, of corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance. The obtained research findings made it possible to add organizational politics to a wide range of elements determining corporate entrepreneurship, followed by competitive advantage, in addition to antecedents such as strategic leadership, corporate culture, opportunity-oriented resource-based management, etc. Also, the empirical results suggest that four dimensions of organizational politics (dominant coalition, influence exertion, making organizational changes, and information openness) are positively related to firm competitiveness. In addition, these findings seem to underline a supposition that corporate entrepreneurship is an important mediator which strengthens the competitive effects of organizational politics. ER -