Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation

Review of the hardback: 'This collection of original research-based contributions takes our understanding way beyond that previously offered by mainstream studies of power and politics in the multinational corporation. It provides new insights into political dynamics within multinationals and how these are informed by the socio-cultural identities of key actors as well as conditioned by local institutional and cultural factors. From reading this book we can appreciate how apparently mighty and monolithic corporations often lack the cohesion and rationality they like to portray.' John Child, Emeritus Chair of Commerce, University of Birmingham Review of the hardback: 'International business and research into multinationals has, on the whole, not been characterised by a concern with power relations. While this is something that might strike many social scientists as odd it has hardly been remarked by many of the narrower specialists in the field. Christoph Dorrenbacher and Mike Geppert, together with the assemblage of scholars and commentators that they have collected in this volume, are a notable exception to the general tendency. The focus on power relations as the essence of business activity on a global scale is long overdue. From various and diverse frameworks the contributors to this volume rectify the picture.' Stewart Clegg, Professor and Research Director, Centre for Management and Organization Studies (CMOS), University of Technology, Sydney Review of the hardback: 'The more eclectic stance taken by the editors towards other contributions to their book provides the reader with a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives on intra-organizational relations within the MNC.' Ray Loveridge, University of Oxford