The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly ‘talked’ to each other: a) predominantly economic and functionalist oriented International Business Researchers, and b) largely social constructivist and critical management oriented Organization Theorists. This volume intends to build bridges by bringing together leading international scholars from both camps, who provide new insights in the study of MNCs. In addition to the bridge-building exercise, the book aims to develop a more comprehensive organizational theoretical understanding as well as methodological plurality in the study of how MNCs function in the post-millennium era, both internally and externally, and also how they control their international operations across economic, institutional, cultural, linguistic, political and social divides. Key topics addressed in our volume include: historical perspectives on the study of MNCs, the role of increased financialization and marketization on MNCs, the new role of the HQ within contemporary MNC, the role of language in MNCs, discursive studies of MNCs, labour representation in MNCs as well as social movements and corporate social responsibility and MNCs.
This volume covers a range of on-going and newly emerging debates in the study of multinational companies (MNCs). A key aim is to consolidate and make available in one place new conceptual, methodological and critical MNC research.
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Business and economics scholars from Europe, Australia, Israel and North America offer 15 essays on how insights from organization theory and international business can broaden understanding of multinational corporations. They describe the historical perspective on the relationship between multinational corporations and organization theory; established applications of organization theory in their study, such as a contingency approach to the role of headquarters, institutionalist theory, and ethnographic studies; new concepts and methodologies, including multinational corporations as multi-lingual corporations, headquarters-subsidiary relations, critical realism, convention theory, and a playing field of power; and internal and external contestations of multinational corporations, including the role of gender, the role of social movements and political contests, ethics, and the adoption of corporate social responsibility. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
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| Editorial Advisory Board |
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| Preface |
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Multinational Corporations And Organization Theory: An Introduction To Post-Millennium Perspectives |
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The East India Company: The First Modern Multinational? |
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PART II FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ESTABLISHED DEBATES |
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The Role Of Headquarters In The Contemporary MNC: A Contingency Model |
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Between Local Mooring And Global Orientation: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective On The Contemporary Multinational Corporation |
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What The Shared Industry And Country Of Origin Bring: Analogous Sequences In The Internationalization Of Finnish Paper MNCs |
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Altered States Of Consciousness: MNCs And Ethnographic Studies |
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PART III NEW CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN THE STUDY OF THE MNC |
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Language As A Meeting Ground For Research On The MNC And Organization Theory |
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Headquarter-Subsidiary Relations In The Multinational Corporation As A Discursive Struggle |
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Applying Critical Realism To The Mnc: Exploring New Realities In Staffing And Expatriation |
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Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships From A Convention Theory Perspective: Plural Orders Of Worth, Arrangements And Form-Giving Activities |
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The Multinational Corporation As A Playing Field Of Power: A Bourdieusian Approach |
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PART IV THE CONTEMPORARY MNC: AN INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY POLITICIZED ORGANIZATION |
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MNCs And Politicization From Outside |
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Private Governance As Regulatory Substitute Or Complement? A Comparative Institutional Approach To CSR Adoption By Multinational Corporations |
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| About The Authors |
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Christoph Dörrenbächer is Professor of Organizational Design and Behaviour in International Business at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Department of Business and Economics), Berlin, Germany. Previously he worked as a consultant and research fellow at various organizations in Germany and abroad, including the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin and the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Visiting appointments were with the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (New York), Central European University (Budapest) and Manchester Metropolitan University. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Free University, Berlin. His current research focus is on management, labour relations and headquarters - subsidiary relationships in multinational corporations. He has published widely in renowned international academic journals including British Journal of Management, International Business Review, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Organization Studies and Journal of International Management. He currently serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Critical Perspectives on International Business and he is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for International Business Studies (BIIBS).
Mike Geppert is Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, and Visiting Professor at the Turku School of Economics. Other recent visiting appointments were with the University of Technology, Sydney, Stanford University and the University of Regensburg. Mike holds a PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. His current research focus is on socio-political issues and sensemaking within multinational companies, and on cross-national comparisons of management and employment relations in various industrial sectors. He has published in highly recognized academic journals including British Journal of Management, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review and Organization Studies. Mike served as Vice-chair of EGOS until 2016 and is co-organizer of the EGOS Standing Working Group on Multinational corporations: social agency and institutional change.
