Organization theory and the multinational corporation / edited by Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney.

Despite a shared interest in the analysis of complex organizations operating in complex environments macro-organization theory and research on the multinational corporation (MNC) have not had a close relationship. Scholars working on the MNC have drawn eclectically, rather than systematically, on or...

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Other Authors: Ghoshal, Sumantra, Westney, D. Eleanor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and Overview / Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney. 2. Managing DMNCs: A Search for a New Paradigm / Yves Doz and C. K. Prahalad
  • Pt. I. Environment and Organization-Environment Interactions. 3. Institutionalization Theory and the Multinational Corporation / D. Eleanor Westney. 4. The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network / Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher Bartlett. 5. The European Subsidiaries of American Multinationals: An Exercise in Ecological Analysis / Jacques Delacroix. 6. Learning, or the Importance of being Inert: Country Imprinting and International Competition / Bruce Kogut
  • Pt. II. Organization Structure and Governance. 7. Control in Multinational Firms: The Role of Price and Hierarchy / Jean-Francois Hennart. 8. Information Processing Theory and the Multinational Corporation / William Egelhoff. 9. Assumptions of Hierarchy and Heterarchy with Applications to the Management of the Multinational Corporation / Gunnar Hedlund. 10. Procedural Justice Theory and the Multinational Corporation / W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
  • Pt. III. Organizational Culture and Norms. 11. The Reproduction of Inertia in Multinational Corporations / Martin Kilduff. 12. The Flow of Culture: Some Notes on Globalization and the Multinational Corporation / John Van Maanen and Andre Laurent.