This book explores the relationships between the day-to-day activities of managers in multinational firms and the wider social, institutional and cultural contexts in which they operate. This book explores the relationships between the day-to-day activities of managers in multinational firms and the wider social, institutional and cultural contexts in which they operate. This book explores the relationships between the day-to-day activities of managers in multinational firms and the wider social, institutional and cultural contexts in which they operate. Specifically, it examines the processes that shape the adoption and adaptation of organizational practices and policies across diverse national settings; it considers the role of expatriates in the context of the headquarter-subsidiary relationship; and explores how managers negotiate their interests and activities in relation to organizational mechanisms of co-ordination and control.
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'This book reaches out to international business scholars in an effort to fill in the agency gap in knowledge transfer processes of multinational corporations. It constitutes an excellent response to Redding's (2005) call for greater attention and discern to the i) construction of meaning, ii) role of interested groups, and iii) impact of historical forces in international business scholarship.' - Organization Studies
'Many of the book's case studies are extremely interesting and insightful...the intended audience is clearly an academic one, appealing to those with an interest in the cutting-edge development of international business and international management as a field of study.' - Academy of Management Perspectives
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MIKE GEPPERT is a Reader in International Management Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. His recent research interests are in comparative organization studies and international management. He is editing two special issues in 2005, one on 'Transnational Institution Building and the MNC' for Human Relations and the other on 'Micro-politics and Conflicts in MNCs' for the Journal of International Management. MICHAEL MAYER is a Reader in Strategic Management at Edinburgh University School of Management in the UK. He has published in academic journals such as the <
List of Figures and Tables * Notes on the Contributors * Preface * Introduction--M.Geppert & M.Mayer * PART 1: MANAGERIAL PRACTICES AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS * The Comparative Institutional Approach to Human Resource Management in Multinational Companies--A.Tempel & P.Walgenbach * Employment Relations as a Resource in the Socio-Political Construction of Transnational Social Spaces by Multinational Companies--K.Williams & M.Geppert * PART 2: PROBLEMS OF TRANSFERRING MANAGERIAL PRACTICES TRANSNATIONALLY * Transferring Value-infused Organizational Practices in Multinational Companies--S.Blazejewski * Variation of Practices across Multiple Levels within Transnational Companies--A.Mohan * Knowledge Transfer Process in Multinational Companies--T.C.Chini & B.Ambos * PART 3: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND 'INTERNATIONAL' PRACTITIONERS * Governing the Outposts? Exploring the Role of Expatriate Managers in a Multinational Corporation--F.Moore * Embedding the Multinational Enterprise--R.Loveridge * Index
List of Figures and Tables * Notes on the Contributors * Preface * Introduction--M.Geppert & M.Mayer * PART 1: MANAGERIAL PRACTICES AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS * The Comparative Institutional Approach to Human Resource Management in Multinational Companies--A.Tempel & P.Walgenbach * Employment Relations as a Resource in the Socio-Political Construction of Transnational Social Spaces by Multinational Companies--K.Williams & M.Geppert * PART 2: PROBLEMS OF TRANSFERRING MANAGERIAL PRACTICES TRANSNATIONALLY * Transferring Value-infused Organizational Practices in Multinational Companies--S.Blazejewski * Variation of Practices across Multiple Levels within Transnational Companies--A.Mohan * Knowledge Transfer Process in Multinational Companies--T.C.Chini & B.Ambos * PART 3: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND 'INTERNATIONAL' PRACTITIONERS * Governing the Outposts? Exploring the Role of Expatriate Managers in a Multinational Corporation--F.Moore * Embedding the Multinational Enterprise--R.Loveridge * Index
BJÖRN AMBOS Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Management School, UK, and adjunct Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Italy SUSANNE BLAZEJEWSKI Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Organizational Behaviour, European University Viadrina, Germany TINA C. CHINI Research Fellow, London Business School affiliated with the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), UK MIKE GEPPERT Reader in International Management Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK RAY LOVERIDGE Research Fellow and Director of the MSc (Management Research) Programme, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK MICHAEL MAYER Reader in Strategic Management, University of Edinburgh, UK ANUPAMA MOHAN PhD and Research Fellow in International Business Strategy, Warwick Business School, UK FIONA MOORE Industrial Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, UK ANNE TEMPEL Senior Lecturer of Organization Theory and Management, University of Erfurt, Germany HARTMUT WÄCHTER Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Trier, Germany PETER WALGENBACH Professor of Organization Theory and Management, University of Erfurt, Germany KAREN WILLIAMS Lecturer in Comparative Industrial Relations, School of Business and Economics, University of Wales, UK
