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Our VALPOP colleagues Harald Puhr, Matt (Matevž) Raskovic, Michael Wolfesberger, and Thomas Lindner were active at the Academy of International Business (AIB) annual meeting in Louisville, KY. They presented multiple research papers on how firms structure their relations with governments and societies. From a firm perspective, this may seem mainly like a prudent risk-management strategy. For societies, however, this entails the risk of value capture and transfer of public goods from citizens to firms.