Abstract
As an organization that operates simultaneously in many diverse environments, the multinational corporation (MNC) would seem to be promising territory for testing and developing organization theories, particularly theories about the relationships between organizations and their environments; and yet organization theory and the study of the MNC have not had a particularly close relationship. Organization theorists have rarely taken the MNC as an arena for study. Theorists who have focused on case studies of individual organizations have found the MNC’s size and complexity forbidding, whereas those favouring large-sample quantitative studies have preferred to look at categories of organizations with much larger populations.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1993 Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ghoshal, S., Westney, D.E. (1993). Introduction and Overview. In: Ghoshal, S., Westney, D.E. (eds) Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22557-6_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22557-6_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-22559-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-22557-6
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management CollectionBusiness and Management (R0)