The Multinational Firm

Informationen zum Autor 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 ofManchester. 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). Klappentext A rare insight into the actual problems of managing multinationals. Multinational firms are a ubiquitous feature of modern economies. Yet how much do we really know of how they work? In this book, internationally-distinguished scholars show that multinational firms and the international systems which seek to regulate them are both political and precarious. This book reveals the complexity of managing multinationals and pulls the veil back from the myth of themultinational firm as a unified, economically-rational actor. Zusammenfassung Rather than cohesive rational actors maximizing resources across national boundaries, this text argues that multinational corporations are complex social arenas where competing groups draw on internal resources in developing new transnational social relationships.

Product details

• Authors: P. H. Kristensen, G. Morgan, Glenn Morgan, R. Whitley
• Assisted by: Peer Hull Kristensen (Editor), Peer Hull (Professor Kristensen (Editor), MORGAN (Editor), Glenn Morgan (Editor), Glenn (Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour Morgan (Editor), Richard Whitley (Editor), Richard (Professor of Organizational Sociology Whitley (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199259298
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925929-8
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business / Economics / Finance, International business, Management & management techniques, Management and management techniques, Multinationals