Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation
The Role of Institutions, Interests and Identities

“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 Dörrenbächer 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 of Centre for Management and Organization Studies (CMOS), University of Technology, Sydney

"This book... offers a wide array of insights that both help consolidate a range of debates, as well as ample directions for further inquiry."
Ödül Bozkurt, University of Sussex, Journal of International Management

“With their volume, Dörrenbächer and Geppert make a ground-breaking contribution to this only recently emerging realm of the debate.”
Martin Seeliger, Ruhr-University of Bochum, British Journal of Industrial Relations

“All in all, the contributions of the book are highly successful in accomplishing the book’s key aims. Rich in conceptual backgrounds and international empirical evidence, the various chapters provide excellent reading not only on the fact that power matters in the game-playing arena within MNCs, particularly when interests or identities conflict, but also on how and why it matters. As a leading example of its kind that focuses on power and politics issues in the management of MNCs, the book achieves its main objective of taking the issue to the forefront of academic discussions. Although the book is written by academics mainly for the academic community, particularly the empirical contributions can be of utmost interest to those practitioners involved in one of the most global phenomena, that is, MNCs. It is therefore wholeheartedly recommended to the academic and practitioner communities alike.”
Kadire Zeynep Sayim, Bilkent University, Journal of Industrial Relations

"… the theoretically engaging and empirically challenging nature of this book provides a thought-provoking piece of work on the sustained discussion of power and politics in [a multinational corporation] environment. It will also allow us to develop current considerations to help stimulate further interdisciplinary insight into the study of micropolitical dynamics within the multinational corporation."
Industrial and Labor Relations Review