Politics And Power In The Multinational Corporation

Author : Christoph Dörrenbächer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500015
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation written by Christoph Dörrenbächer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2011. The current financial and economic crisis has negatively underlined the vital role of multinational companies (MNCs) in our daily lives. The breakdown and crisis of flagship MNCs, such as Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Toyota and General Motors, does not merely reveal the problems of corporate malfeasance and market dysfunction. It also raises important questions, both for the public and the academic community, about the use and misuse of power by MNCs in the wider society, as well as the exercise of power by key actors within internationally operating firms. This book examines how issues of power and politics affect MNCs at three different levels; the macro-level, the meso-level and the micro-level. This wide-ranging analysis shows not only that power matters but also how and why it matters, pointing to the political interactions of key power holders and actors within the MNC, both managers and employees.

Author : John Mikler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745698492
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Power of Global Corporations written by John Mikler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization. In this book, John Mikler re-casts global corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies. Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail. We know the global corporations' names, we know where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.

Author : William Gilpin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465089512
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U S Power Multinational Corp written by William Gilpin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1975-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on foreign policies and economic policies of the USA with regard to foreign investment, economic relations and multinational enterprises (role of USA) - shows the reciprocal interaction of economics and politics in today's world. References and statistical tables.

Author : Peter A. Gourevitch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837014
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Power and Corporate Control written by Peter A. Gourevitch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.

Author : Nathan M. Jensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837375
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation written by Nathan M. Jensen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a country attractive to foreign investors? To what extent do conditions of governance and politics matter? This book provides the most systematic exploration to date of these crucial questions at the nexus of politics and economics. Using quantitative data and interviews with investment promotion agencies, investment location consultants, political risk insurers, and decision makers at multinational corporations, Nathan Jensen arrives at a surprising conclusion: Countries may be competing for international capital, but government fiscal policy--both taxation and spending--has little impact on multinationals' investment decisions. Although government policy has a limited ability to determine patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, political institutions are central to explaining why some countries are more successful in attracting international capital. First, democratic institutions lower political risks for multinational corporations. Indeed, they lead to massive amounts of foreign direct investment. Second, politically federal institutions, in contrast to fiscally federal institutions, lower political risks for multinationals and allow host countries to attract higher levels of FDI inflows. Third, the International Monetary Fund, often cited as a catalyst for promoting foreign investment, actually deters multinationals from investment in countries under IMF programs. Even after controlling for the factors that lead countries to seek IMF support, IMF agreements are associated with much lower levels of FDI inflows.

Author : Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053676
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation written by Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the foundations, applications and new directions of politics perspectives in MNCs.

Author : Usha C V Haley
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814492345
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multinational Corporations In Political Environments: Ethics, Values And Strategies written by Usha C V Haley and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multinational Corporations in Political Environments advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states. Theories of international business have often ignored the complexity of corporate decisions about leaving foreign countries, generally assuming that the economic and competitive reasons that prompt multinational corporations to enter host states also explain their subsequent reasons for leaving. Alternatively, this book proposes a theory of how different stakeholders' values and ethics shape multinationals' strategic leaving behaviors. Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders' actions influenced multinationals' behaviors. Detailed analyses of subsidiary-level archival data over a period of four crucial years revealed that the multinationals engaged in diverse forms of leaving reflecting their involvements, strategies and stakeholders' influences. The research, the first to test which stakeholders' strategies, including boycotts and sanctions, influenced multinationals and which did not, and to identify their effects on multinationals' behaviors, has enormous implications for policy makers, managers and social activists. The book also applies the findings and explores implications for recent stakeholders' attempts at influencing multinationals and governments, such as Nike in Asia and the Burmese government, through sanctions, resolutions and boycotts.

Author : John Mikler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789903238
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MNCs in Global Politics written by John Mikler and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative book examines the power of multinational corporations (MNCs) to exert influence in global politics. Focusing on the actions and motivations of MNCs, it explores how they attempt to shape the political issues that affect them.

Author : Robert Gilpin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation written by Robert Gilpin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316538885
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation written by Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, politics perspectives in international business have moved into the mainstream repertoire of research, theory development and teaching about the organisational behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs). Politics perspectives contribute substantially to understanding the behaviour in and of MNCs in their different contexts and environments but so far these burgeoning perspectives have not been systematically and comprehensively reviewed. This book offers the first detailed overview of the theoretical foundations, methodologies and empirical applications of politics perspectives in MNCs. A group of international authors discuss twelve seminal contributions to the study of politics, power and conflict in MNCs, followed by a summary and synthesis of the literature into a comprehensive analytical framework. The book closes with a discussion of future directions in the field. This is a thorough introduction to political behaviour in MNCs written for scholars and graduate students in the fields of organisation studies and international business.