Full Description
The transnational social space approach has been extensively utilized in migration studies and partly also in management studies. In the latter, a key research focus is on multinational enterprises (MNEs). This Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume reinvigorates and leverages the transnational social space approach to further develop it, addressing the role of MNEs in solving Grand Challenges.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on ideas outside of mainstream Organization Studies, such as Social Geography, Migration Studies, Political Economy, Economic Sociology, and International Business, papers take on the challenge of addressing 'wicked problems' like climate change, poverty, health, and inequality.
Applying the transnational social space idea as an 'envelop framework', the papers broaden the scope of theorizing from various theoretical angles and disciplines and enlarge the empirical scope to fields where the MNE is not automatically the central unit of study. Also, paying attention to whether and how MNEs can shape and, in some cases, distort transnational social spaces as powerful players, the papers, taken together, investigate when, why, and how MNEs can be seen as part of the problem or the solution to grand challenges.
Contents
Chapter 1. Reinterpreting Multinational Enterprises through a Revitalized Transnational Social Space Perspective: Introduction and Outlook; Mike Geppert, Ödül Bozkurt, and Christoph Dörrenbächer
PART I
Chapter 2. The Self-Preservation Perspective of the MNE Applied in an Emerging Transnational Social Space: A New Theoretical Lens for Analyzing Anti-Societal Firm Behavior; Stephen R. Buzdugan, David Freund, Mats Forsgren, and Ulf Holm
Chapter 3. A Seat at the Table: A Polycentric Perspective on MNEs and Grand Challenges; Christopher A. Hartwell
Chapter 4. International Sanctions, Transnational Social Space Dynamics and Human Resource Implications for Multinational Enterprises; Fang Lee Cooke and Geoffrey Wood
PART II
Chapter 5. On the Role of Issue-based Transnational Communities in MNE Organizing for Sustainability; Lutz Preuss and Ralf Barkemeyer
Chapter 6. Global Value Chains and Transnational Social Spaces and Communities: The Emergence of a Circular Economy in the Apparel Industry; Mohammad B. Rana, Matthew M. C. Allen, and Syed Ahmed Tajuddin
Chapter 7. Developing Transnational Social Space in an Emerging Market: How a Chinese NGO Led Apple to Clean Up Local Supply Chains; Haitao Yu, Jacky Hong, and Wenjie Liu
PART III
Chapter 8. Global Issues and Transnational Social Spaces: The Attention of Multinational Enterprises to Grand Challenges; Philipp Poschmann, Lisa-Maria Gerhardt, Michael Hunoldt, Jan Goldenstein, and Peter Walgenbach
Chapter 9. Globalism and Its Discontents: A Case Study of Two Turkish MNCs between Globalism and Nationalism; Ozan Duygulu and S. Arzu Wasti
PART IV
Chapter 10. Transnational Communities in MNE Organizing for Sustainability: Towards a Typology; Lutz Preuss and Ralf Barkemeyer
Chapter 11. The Failure of the International Business Discipline to Revitalize the Understanding of the Multinational Enterprise: The Example of the Global Factory Approach; Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert
