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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.
Contents
Preface
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: AN Introduction to Post-Millennium Perspectives - Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert
The East India Company: The First Modern Multinationals? - Stewart Clegg
PART II: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ESTABLISHED DEBATES
The Role of the Headquarters in the Contemporary MNC: A Contingency Model - William G. Egelhoff and Joachim Wolf
Between Local Mooring and Global Orientation: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective on the Contemporary Multinational Corporation - Peter Walgenbach, Gili S. Drori and Markus A. Höllerer
What the Shared Industry and Country of Origin Bring: Analogous Sequences in the Internationalization of Finnish Paper MNCs - Juha Laurila
Altered States of Consciousness: MNCs and Ethnographic Studies - Fiona Moore
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 - Rebecca Piekkari and D. Eleanor Westney
Headquarter-Subsidiary Relations in the Multinational Corporation as a Discursive Struggle - Alexei Koveshnikov, Mats Ehrnrooth and Eero Vaara
Applying Critical Realism to the MNC: Exploring New Realities in Staffing and Expatriation - Chris Rees and Chris Smith
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships from a Convention Theory Perspective: Plural Orders of Worth, Arrangements and Form-Giving Activites - Julia Brandl and Anna Schneider
The Multinational Corporation as a Playing Field of Power: A Bourdieusian Approach - Giuseppe Delmestri and Mara Brumana
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY MNC: AN INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY POLITICIZED ORGANIZATION
Gendering the MNC - Michal Frenkel
MNCs and Politicization from Outside - Sabrina Zajak
The Dark Side of MNCs - George Cairns and Sharif As-Saber
Private Governance as Regulatory Substitute or Complement? A Comparative Institutional Approach to CSR Adoption by Multinational Corporations - Gregory Jackson and Nikolas Rathert
