Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation [Hardcover]

Despite a shared interest in the analysis of complex organizations operating in complex environments, macro-organization theory and research on the multinational corporation have developed quite independently of each other. This book, the product of a collaborative endeavour by scholars from both fields, represents the first systematic effort to build a broad bridge between these two areas of research.List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; S.Ghoshal & D.E.Westney - Managing DMNCs: A Search for a New Paradigm; Y.Doz & C.K.Prahalad - PART 1: ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS - Institutionalization 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: Country Imprinting and International Competition; B.Kogut - PART 2: ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE - Control in Multinational Firms: The Role of Price and Hierarchy; J-F.Hennart - Information Processing Theory 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.C.Kim & R.A.Mauborgne - PART 3: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND NORMS - The Reproduction of Inertia in Multinational Corporations; M.Kilduff - The Flow of Culture: Some Notes on Globalization and the Multinational Corporation; J.V.Maanen & A.Laurent - Index

'An excellent collection of essays which provides both the general and specialist reader with a fascinating insight into the latest advances in organisational theory.' - John H. Dunning, Universities at Reading and Rutgers.