Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate political activities (CPA) by migrant entrepreneurs to improve business performance in a host developing country. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a cross‐sectional analysis of 97 Chinese migrant entrepreneurs with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to adopt a contingency perspective and examine the impact of managerial political connections on access to a specific external resource – government subsidies – in China. Design/methodology/approach – This study proposes that managerial political...