Leviathans
Subtitle: multinational corporations and the new global history
By: edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Bruce Mazlish.
Contributors: Chandler, Alfred D. 1918-2007.; Mazlish, Bruce, 1923-
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: International business enterprises; Globalization -- Economic aspects
Description: 'Leviathans' is a ground-breaking exploration of multinational corporations and differs from other books on the subject by offering the reader a totally global perspective of multinationals without portraying them simply as economic entities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alfred Chandler and Bruce Mazlish; title: The Scope of the Multinational Phenomenon; title: A primer on multinational corporations / Brian Roach; title: Multinational enterprise to 1930: discontinuities and continuities / Mira Wilkins; title: Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s / Geoffrey Jones; title: Innovative multinational forms: Japan as a case study / Sei Yonekura and Sara McKinney; title: Cultural and Social Implications of Multinationals; title: The social impacts of multinational corporations: an outline of the issues, with a focus on workers / Neva R. Goodwin; title: A global elite? / Bruce Mazlish and Elliott Morss; title: The Governance of Multinationals; title: Governing the multinational enterprise: emergence of the global shareowner / Robert A. G. Monks; title: The financial revolutions of the twentieth century / Zhu Jia-Ming and Elliott R. Morss; title: Multinational corporations, the protest movement, and the future of global governance / Stephen J. Kobrin; title: Conclusion / Bruce Mazlish.