Leviathans : multinational corporations and the new global history / edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Bruce Mazlish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007.

Mazlish, Bruce, 1923-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, 2005.

Contents:

Part 1 The Scope of the Multinational Phenomenon

1 A Primer on Multinational Corporations / Brian Roach 19

2 Multinational Enterprise to 1930: Discontinuities and Continuities / Mira Wilkins 45

3 Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s / Geoffrey Jones 81

4 Innovative Multinational Forms: Japan as a Case Study / Sei Yonekura, Sara McKinney 105

Part 2 Cultural and Social Implications of Multinationals

5 The Social Impacts of Multinational Corporations: An Outline of the Issues with a Focus on Workers / Neva Goodwin 135

6 A Global Elite? / Bruce Mazlish, Elliott R. Morss 167

Part 3 The Governance of Multinationals

7 Governing the Multinational Enterprise: The Emergence of the Global Shareowner / Robert A. G. Monks 189

8 The Financial Revolutions of the Twentieth Century / Zhu Jia-Ming, Elliott R. Morss 203

9 Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement, and the Future of Global Governance / Stephen J. Kobrin 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521840619

0521549930

OCLC:

55886328

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