Institutionalization Theory and the Multinational Corporation

Abstract

Remembering Sumantra Ghoshal -- 1. Introduction and overview of the second edition / Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney -- 2. Managing MNCs : a search for a new paradigm / Yves L. Doz and C. K. Prahalad -- 3. Institutional theory and the multinational corporation / D. Eleanor Westney -- 4. The multinational corporation as an inter-organizational network / Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Barlett -- 5. Ecological analysis of MNCs / Jacques Delacroix -- 6. Learning, or the importance of being inert : country imprinting and international competition / Bruce Kogut -- 7. The institutional context of multinational activity / Mauro F. Guillen and Sandra L. Suarez -- 8. Control in multinational firms : the role of price and hierarchy / Jean-Francois Hennart -- 9. Information-processing theory and the multinational corporation / William G. Egelhoff -- 10. Assumptions of hierarchy and heterarchy, with applications to the management of the multinational corporation / Gunnar Hedlund -- 11. Procedural justice theory and the multinational corporation / W. Chan Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne -- 12. The reproduction of inertia in multinational corporations / Martin Kilduff -- 13. Mickey on the move : observations on the flow of culture in the multinational corporation / John Van Maanen.