Normally when you sign an agreement with any firm to get data they get the right to look at what you did but they explicitly give up any editorial role. They

Normally when you sign an agreement with any firm to get data they get the right to look at what you did but they explicitly give up any editorial role. They might, however, not be that excited to give you the data for a second project if they don’t like what you said in the first one? That’s possible. So overall: maybe a small conflict?? But I don’t think the effects on the conclusion of the research are likely to be that strong. Not in economics anyway. No one’s research agenda is so tied to any one industry. Most of the firms can comfort themselves with the thought that the readership of whatever journal you publish in is probably measured in tens or hundreds.