Multinational corporations and organization theory post millennium perspectives / edited by Christoph Dörrenbächer (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany) Mike Geppert (School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany).

Other author Dörrenbächer, Christoph, 1961-
Other author Geppert, Mike.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoBingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2017]
Descriptionxxi, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; Volume 49
Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 49. ^A1253592
Contents Part I Setting the Scene. Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: An Introduction to Post-Millennium Perspectives -- The East India Company: The First Modern Multinational? -- Part II: Further Development of Established Debates. The Role of Headquarters in the Contemporary MNC: A Contingency Model -- Between Local Mooring and Global Orientation: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective on the Contemporary Multinational Corporation -- What the Shared Industry and Country of Origin Bring: Analogous Sequences in the Internationalization of Finnish Paper MNCs -- Altered States of Consciousness: MNCs and Ethnographic Studies -- Part III: New Conceptual and Methodological Approaches in the Study of the MNC. -- Language as a Meeting Ground for Research on the MNC and Organization Theory -- Headquarter-Subsidiary Relations in the Multinational Corporation as a Discursive Struggle -- Applying Critical Realism to the MNC: Exploring New Realities in Staffing and Expatriation -- Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships from a Convention Theory Perspective: Plural Orders of Worth, Arrangements and Form-Giving Activities -- The Multinational Corporation as a Playing Field of Power: A Bourdieusian Approach -- Part IV: The Contemporary MNC: An Internally and Externally Politicized Organization. Gendering the MNC -- MNCs and Politicization from Outside -- The Dark Side of MNCs -- Private Governance as Regulatory Substitute or Complement? A Comparative Institutional Approach to CSR Adoption by Multinational Corporations.
Abstract 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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