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 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2017] |
| Description | xxi, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Research 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Ebook version 9781786353856 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017394168 |
| ISBN | 9781786353863 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1786353865 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |