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Multinational Firm Organizing Across Institutional and National Divides

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ISBN-10: 0199247552

ISBN-13: 9780199247554

Edition: 2001

Authors: Glenn Morgan, Peer Hull Kristensen, Richard Whitley

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In contrast to the traditional view of multinational firms as cohesive rational actors maximizing the use of resources across national boundaries, the contributors to this volume argue that they are complex social arenas where competing groups draw on resources from their own socially-embedded locations in developing new transnational social relationships. As firms seek to manage across national and institutional boundaries, they stretch their existing capacities and routines and develop new sets of transnational social relationships through different groups competing and cooperating. These processes occur at a number of levels which are explored in different empirical settings. Firstly, at…    
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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/8/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. John Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor, Department of Sociology, at Dartmouth College. Colin Crouch is a professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Ove Kaj Pedersen is a professor at the International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. Richard Whitley is professor at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

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