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Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation
This book was first published in 2011. The current financial and economic crisis has negatively underlined the vital role of multinational companies (MNCs) in our daily lives. The breakdown and crisis of flagship MNCs, such as Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Toyota and General Motors, does not merely reveal the problems of corporate malfeasance and market dysfunction. It also raises important questions, both for the public and the academic community, about the use and misuse of power by MNCs in the wider society, as well as the exercise of power by key actors within internationally operating firms. This book examines how issues of power and politics affect MNCs at three different levels; the macro-level, the meso-level and the micro-level. This wide-ranging analysis shows not only that power matters but also how and why it matters, pointing to the political interactions of key power holders and actors within the MNC, both managers and employees.
Organizational Identity and Firm Growth
This edited volume focuses on the interplay between organizational identities and firm growth, an area which remains largely unexplored. Firm growth in its various forms is omnipresent in the contemporary business environment, but does not always lead to positive results. At the same time, some organizations are growing faster than their peers, leading to questions of organizational growth antecedents. In addition to the dominant economic reasons in strategic literature, the volume seeks to integrate psychological aspects to the discourse, thereby considering the micro, meso and macro level. By providing both insights into international academic thinking and into practical examples of small and medium-sized companies in Berlin, the authors identify new findings concerning successful growth strategies.
Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the foundations, applications and new directions of politics perspectives in MNCs.
Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory
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.
Corporate Reorganisation in the European Transport and Logistic Sector in the 1990s
"This book deals with corporate reorganisation in the European transport and logistics sectors. Major structural shifts, such as the globalisation of markets or technological innovations, have given rise to tremendous reorganisation efforts. In addition to a general introduction to the issue of corporate reorganisation the book contains 12 in-depth company reorganisation profiles encompassing European freight forwarders, cargo railways and postal organisations. In its concluding remarks, the book compares the different reorganisation patterns and offers an outlook regarding the ""finalists"" in an industry that will see a process of further concentration over the next decade. "
The Global Brewery Industry
ÔThis book describes a number of different empirical studies and evaluations of the international brewery industry. This industry has recently undergone two climactic changes within a ten to fifteen year time period. These are a significant industry-wide consolidation of firms and market shares accompanied by the internationalization of what was previously a largely local industry. Understanding the drivers and implications of such abrupt and massive change in the competitive environment of an industry is of great interest to international and strategic management scholars. Most of the bookÕs chapters address this issue, some at the global industry level, some at a regional level, and some...
Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management
Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the relations between the global and the local with regard to organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms. This edited volume forges ahead to capture the complexity of modern management and organization that results from the processes of glocalization. Universality is among the core underlying principles of the management of organizations, as well as of organization and management science itself. Yet, reality reveals enormous variation across social and cultural contexts. For instance, multinational corporations must adjust their management practices to ...
A Research Agenda for Corporations
This exciting Research Agenda offers a multi-disciplinary and historically informed programme for the further investigation of the global political economy of the corporate sector. It tackles the question, can and should the corporation be reformed? Christopher May develops a range of intersecting areas for research while also offering an account of the possibilities for the reform of the global corporation.
Expatriate Managers
Since the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fueled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global business elite with cosmopolitan mind-sets and homogeneous lifestyles, while others have highlighted their disconnection from the local surroundings and their everyday life within national expatriate ‘bubbles’. Thus, the question of whether today’s mobile professionals can be described as interculturally open and competent cosmopolitans, or as pronounced anti-cosmopolitans, is still unanswered. Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad considers a core protagonist o...
Transnationale Konzerne
Transnationale Konzerne gelten heute als zentrale Akteure im Globalisierungsprozess. Was jedoch aussteht, ist eine genuin organisationssoziologisch argumentierende Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Organisationstyp: Was bedeutet Transnationalisierung für die Umweltbezüge von (Wirtschafts-)Organisationen? Was bedeutet sie für die Inklusion von Mitgliedern? Wie verändert sich ihre soziale Einbettung? Was geschieht mit kulturell verankerten Deutungssystemen und Relevanzstrukturen? Diesen Fragen gehen die Beiträge des Sammelbands nach. Als roter Faden zieht sich durch alle Beiträge die Frage, ob Transnationale Konzerne einen neuen Typus von Organisation darstellen, und wenn ja, wie er sich theoretisch modellieren und empirisch beschreiben lässt.
