Relocating a national capital triggers a wave of corporate lobbying offices

Evidence

An indirect measure of overall CPA level development of German companies is whether and when companies have founded their own PA unit(s). The statistics indicate that the situation changed in 1999 when Berlin became the new capital of Germany. A large number of companies (54 per cent) founded their representative office in 1999 or later (see Figure 5.3). — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 390

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