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Authors: Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley (Editor), Glenn Morgan
ISBN-13: 9780199247554, ISBN-10: 0199247552
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Glenn Morgan

Glenn Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. He was previously Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Manchester Business School and Research Fellow at Manchester School of Management, UMIST. Peer Hull Kristensen is Professor in the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School. Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has also held visiting academic appointments at the International University of Japan (1993), University of Hong Kong (1988), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1987), University of Amsterdam (1982), St Anthony's College, Oxford (1981), and the Inter-University Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1977, 1979).

Book Synopsis

Multinational firms are a ubiquitous feature of modern economies, yet how much do we really know about how they work? This book reveals the complexity of managing multinationals and shatters the myth of the multinational as a unified, economically-rational firm.

Table of Contents

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1The Multinational Firm: Organizing Across Institutional and National Divides1
2How and Why are International Firms Different? The Consequences of Cross-Border Managerial Coordination for Firm Characteristics and Behaviour27
3The Emergence of German Transnational Companies: A Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Study of the Globalization Process69
4Constructing Global Corporations: Contrasting National Legacies in the Nordic Forest Industry97
5Between National and International Governance: Geopolitics, Strategizing Actors, and Sector Coordination in Electrical Engineering in the Interwar Era125
6The Internationalization of Capital Markets: How International Institutional Investors are Restructuring Finnish Companies153
7The Making of a Global Firm: Local Pathways to Multinational Enterprise172
8Globalization and Change: Organizational Continuity and Change within a Japanese Multinational in the UK196
9The Development of Transnational Standards and Regulations and their Impacts on Firms225
10Globalization and its Limits: The Making of International Regulation253
11National Trajectories, International Competition, and Transnational Governance in Europe281
Index307

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