Stephen Todd Rudman

The Multinational Corporation in China

Controlling Interests

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with a fascinating inside story on contemporary China. Focusing on the control and coordination by four large US multinational corporations of their China operations, Rudman bases the book on his own original research within the China affiliates of these companies, conducted over a two-year period. Sources include personal interviews with senior managers, as well as discussions with consultants, lawyers, and government officials. Rudman also reviews internal and publicly available company documents, and books, periodicals, and newspapers dealing with relevant industries and with 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781405133692
• ISBN-10: 1405133694
• Artikelnr.: 21422128

Autorenporträt

Before becoming an academic, Stephen Rudman spent 20 years in business, as Vice President of a publicly-quoted manufacturer, general counsel for the motor carrier subsidiary of a major US railroad, international tax attorney for a major multinational bank, and senior counsel for a major international container shipping company. He has lectured at the Haas School of Business, the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Assistant Professor in the International Business Department at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

INTRODUCTION.

Part I: Theory and Context.

1 Control and Coordination within Multinational Corporations:The undeveloped state of theory.

2 Multinational Corporations in China: The institutionalcontext.

Part II: The Cases.

3 "According to Plan": Control and coordinationthrough the discipline of planning in an American multinationalcorporation in China.

4 "Control and Coordination through Goals": The roleof a paramount corporate goal in managing an American multinationalcorporation in China.

5 "Global Replication": Coordination through thediscipline of replication of organizational processes in anAmerican multinational corporation in China.

6 "The Genetics of an Operating System": Control andcoordination through the transmission of shared managementprocesses in an American multinational corporation in China.

Part III: Comparison and Analysis across the Cases.

7 Cross-Case Comparison Summary.

8 Setting Goals, Selecting Strategies, and AdoptingOrganizational Forms.

9 Controlling and Coordinating People: Human resourcesmanagement policies and practices.

10 Control and Coordination of Money and Factories: Finance andmanufacturing.

11 Control and Coordination of Responses to China'sInstitutional Environments.

Conclusion: Informing the Theory and Practice of Control andCoordination in the Multinational Corporation.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"A thorough, in-depth analysis of the multinational experience inChina; strikes the right balance between theory and practice."Oded Shenkar, The Ohio State University

"I have found Stephen Todd Rudman's Controlling Intereststo be a fascinating study of the problems and possibilities ofachieving effective coordination and control of multinationalcorporate subsidiaries located in China. Given the rapidlyexpanding importance of China based enterprise to our globalpolitical economy, this book based on in-depth case studies of theinteractions between MNCs and their Chinese affiliates providescritical insights for managers and scholars alike which will enablethem better to understand the complexities of operating inthe
twenty-first century 'Middle Kingdom'." Edwin M. Epstein,University of California, Berkeley

"Professor Rudman has written the definitive guide tounderstanding the Chinese business environment and its complexmanagement practices. Well written, thoroughly researched andsupported by actual cases, this is an essential resource for anyexecutive doing business in China and with China." MichaelA. Mische, University of Southern California