Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation (eBook, PDF)

The Role of Institutions, Interests and Identities
Redaktion: Dorrenbacher, Christoph

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Produktbeschreibung

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 macro-level, the meso-level and the micro-level. This wide-ranging 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139065016
• Artikelnr.: 38276384

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dörrenbächer; 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 socio-political strategizing in
MNCs in Germany Karen Williams and Mike Geppert; 4. Bridging roles, social
skill and embedded knowing in multinational organisations Mark
Fenton-O'Creevy, Paul Gooderham, Jean-Luc Cerdin and Rune Rønning; Part
III. Politics and Power in MNCs: Headquarters-Subsidiary Relations: 5.
Conflict in headquarters-subsidiary relations: a critical literature review
and new directions Susanne Blazejewski and Florian Becker-Ritterspach; 6.
Intra-organizational turbulences in multinational corporations Andreas
Schotter and Paul W. Beamish; 7. Conflicts in headquarters-subsidiary
relationships: headquarters-driven charter losses in foreign subsidiaries
Christoph Dörrenbächer and Jens Gammelgaard; 8. Headquarters-subsidiary
relationships from a social psychological perspective: how perception gaps
concerning the subsidiary's role may lead to conflict Stefan Schmid and
Andrea Daniel; Part IV. Politics and Power in MNCs: Role of National
Identities and Identity Work: 9. Subsidiary manager socio-political
interaction: the impact of host country culture Christopher Williams; 10.
Unequal power relations, identity discourse, and cultural distinction
drawing in MNCs Sierk Ybema and Hyunghae Byun; 11. National identities in
times of organizational globalization: a case study of Russian managers in
two Finnish-Russian organizations Alexei Koveshnikov; 12. Contesting social
space in the Balkan region: the social dimensions of a 'Red' joint venture
Mairi Maclean and Graham Hollinshead; Part V. Conclusions: 13. Reflections
on the macro-politics of micro-politics Glenn Morgan; Index.