The multinational corporation in China
Subtitle: controlling interests
By: Stephen Todd Rudman.
Series: Organization and strategy
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781405133692
Subjects: International business enterprises -- China -- Management; International business enterprises -- China -- Management -- Case studies; International business enterprises -- United States -- Management; International business enterprises -- United States -- Management -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with an inside story on contemporary China. The book concentrates on dynamic management control processes, enabling readers to understand how multinational corporations are managed; its precise definition of control and coordination facilitates the development of a coherent theory of management control. Alongside a clearer understanding of multinational management control, readers will find in this book rich insights into the nature of business relationships in China."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Control and coordination within multinational corporations; title: Multinational corporations in China; title: According to plan; title: Control and coordination through goals; title: Global replication; title: The genetics of an operating system; title: Cross-case comparison summary; title: Setting goals, selecting strategies, and adopting organizational forms; title: Controlling and coordinating people; title: Control and coordination of money and factories; title: Control and coordination of responses to China's institutional environments; title: Informing the theory and practice of control and coordination in the multinational corporation.