Synopses & Reviews
The original edition of Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation was a seminal influence in bringing together research on organization theory and international management, particularly the multinational corporation with contributions from leading thinkers. In this new edition, the contributions have been revised and updated to reflect and incorporate new paradigms and thinking in both fields.
Review
Praise for Sumantra Ghoshal:
"Arguably the most influential academic working in the field of international business."--The Financial Times
About the Author
Sumantra Ghoshal held the Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School until his death in 2004. D. Eleanor Westney is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor in the Strategy and International Management group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Overview - Second Edition; S.Ghoshal & D.E.Westney * Managing DMNCs: A search for a New Paradigm; C.K.Prahalad & Y.Doz * Institutional Theory and the Multinational Corporation; D.E.Westney * The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network; S.Ghoshal & C.Bartlett * The European Subsidiaries of American Multinationals: An Exercise in Ecological Analysis; J.Delacroix * Learning, or the Importance of Being Inert; B.Kogut * Cross-National Comparisons and the Institutional Context of Multinational Activity; M.F.Guillen & S.L.Suarez * Control in Multinational Firm: The Role of Price and Hierarchy; J.Hennart * Information Processing and the Multinational Corporation: W.Egelhoff * Assumptions of Hierarchy and Heterarchy, with Applications to the Management of the Multinational Corporation; G.Hedlund * Procedural Justice Theory and the Multinational Corporation; W.Chan Kim & R.Mauborgne * The reproduction of Inertia in Multinational Corporations; M.Kilduff * Mickey on the Move: Observations on the Flow of Culture in the Multinational Corporation; J.Van Maanen *