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Title

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

Publication

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Ghoshal, Sumantra.
• Westney, D. Eleanor.

Description

xiv, 358 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 organization theory, and organization theorists have largely ignored the MNC as a venue for research. This book explores the potential for synergy across the two fields. The product of a collaborative endeavour involving scholars from both areas, it suggests how different strands of organization theory, including institutionalization theory, organizational ecology, exchange theory, transaction cost theory, contingency theory and structuration theory can illuminate the analysis of the MNC and how such extension to the MNC might enrich the theories themselves. The primary objective of the book is to stimulate mutual interest and research collaboration among organization theorists and international management scholars, and to encourage both established researchers and those entering the two fields to pursue theory-grounded empirical research on the MNC.

Subject

• International business enterprises > Management
• Organization
• Organizational behavior
• Corporate culture
• Organizational Culture
• Multinationales Unternehmen
• Organisationstheorie
• Kongress
• Internationale ondernemingen
• Organisatietheorie
• Entreprises multinationales > Gestion
• Comportement organisationnel
• Culture d'entreprise
• Kongreß
• Multinationales Unternehmen
• Organisationstheorie

Genre/Form

Fontainebleau (1989)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0312079354
• 9780312079352
• 0333546229
• 9780333546222

LCCN

• 91047612
• 32463892

OCLC

• ocm25164638
• 25164638
• SCSB-1972460

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library