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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dörrenbächer, Christoph, 1961- editor.

Geppert, Mike, editor.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 49.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises.

Organizational sociology.

Organizational behavior.

Business and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 501 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

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:

Prelims

part I: Setting the scene

part II: Further development of established debates

part III: New conceptual and methodological approaches in the study of the MNC

part IV: The contemporary MNC: an internally and externally politicized organization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

Formerly CIP.

ISBN:

9781787143128

1787143120

9781786353856

1786353857

OCLC:

973396930