POLITICS AND POWER IN THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION

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A 2011 study of how and why power in multinational corporations matters emphasising sociopolitical interactions between key stakeholders.We typically see multinationals as monolithic organisations but like any institution in society they are not. They are geographically socially culturally and institutionally diverse. This 2011 book examines this complexity focusing on issues of politics and power an underdeveloped area of study in mainstream analyses of multinational corporations.We typically see multinationals as monolithic organisations but like any institution in society they are not. They are geographically socially culturally and institutionally diverse. This 2011 book examines this complexity focusing on issues of politics and power an underdeveloped area of study in mainstream analyses of multinational corporations.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 macrolevel the mesolevel and the microlevel. This wideranging 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.List of figures: List of tables: Foreword Ram Mudambi: Part I. Introduction: 1. Politics and power in the multinational corporation: an introduction Mike Geppert and Christoph DrrenbĄcher: Part II. Politics and Power in MNCs: Institutions Social Embeddedness and Knowledge: 2. Resource dependence and construction and macro and micro politics in transnational enterprises and alliances: the case of jet engine manufacturers in Germany Arndt Sorge and Katja Rothe: 3. Bargained globalisation: employment relations providing robust tool kits for sociopolitical strategizing in MNCs in Germany Karen Williams and Mike Geppert: 4. Bridging roles social skill and embedded knowing in multinational organisations Mark FentonOCreevy Paul Gooderham JeanLuc Cerdin and Rune Rnning: Part III. Politics and Power in MNCs: HeadquartersSubsidiary Relations: 5. Conflict in headquarterssubsidiary relations: a critical literature review and new directions Susanne Blazejewski and Florian BeckerRitterspach: 6. Intraorganizational turbulences in multinational corporations Andreas Schotter and Paul W. Beamish: 7. Conflicts in headquarterssubsidiary relationships: headquartersdriven charter losses in foreign subsidiaries Christ

Data Publikacji: 2011-04-14
Wymiary: 247 mm 174 mm 25 mm 910 gr