Overview

A rare insight into the actual problems of managing multinationals. Multinational firms are a ubiquitous feature of modern economies. Yet how much do we really know of how they work? In this book, internationally-distinguished scholars show that multinational firms and the international systems which seek to regulate them are both political and precarious. This book reveals the complexity of managing multinationals and pulls the veil back from the myth of the multinational firm as a unified, economically-rational actor.

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Author:   Morgan ,  Kristensen ,  Whitley
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.602kg
ISBN:  

9780199247554

ISBN 10:   0199247552
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   01 September 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1: Glenn Morgan: The Multinational Firm: Organizing across institutional and national divides Part I: Convergence and Divergences in the Visible Hand of International Management2: Richard Whitley: How and Why are International Firms Different? The consequences of cross-border managerial coordination for firm characteristics and behaviour 3: Christel Lane: The Emergence of German Transnational Companies: A theoretical analysis and empirical study of the globalization process 4: Eli Moen and Kari Lilja: Constructing Global Corporations: Contrasting national legacies in the Nordic Forest Part II: Constructing and Deconstructing the Visible Hand5: Henrik Glimstedt: Between National and International Governance: Sector coordination and geopolitics in electrical engineering 6: Risto Tainio, Mika Huolman, and Matti Pulkkinen: The Impact of the Internationalizing of Capital Markets on Local Companies: How international institutional investors are restructuring Finnish companies 7: Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin: The Making of a Global Firm: Local pathways to multinational enterprise 8: Diana Rosemary Sharpe: Globalization and Change: Organizational continuity and change within a Japanese multinational in the UK Part III: Changing National and International Economic Orders: Constructing and reconstructing systems of economic organization and regulation9: Glenn Morgan: The Development of Transnational Standards and Regulations and their Impacts on Firms 10: Marie-Laure Djelic and Jabril Bensedrine: Globalization and its Limits: The making of international regulation 11: Dieter Plehwe: National Trajectories, International Competition, and Transnational Governance in Europe

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Author Information

Glenn Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. He was previously Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Manchester Business School and Research Fellow at Manchester School of Management, UMIST. Peer Hull Kristensen is Professor in the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School. Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has also held visiting academic appointments at the International University of Japan (1993), University of Hong Kong (1988), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1987), University of Amsterdam (1982), St Anthony's College, Oxford (1981), and the Inter-University Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1977, 1979).

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