Multinational companies (MNCs) combine the advantages of global strategies with
embeddedness in heterogeneous social, and especially national, contexts. This …

While all multinational organizations face the challenge of managing tensions between local
integration and global responsiveness, they are increasingly required to pursue additional …

Recent research suggests that both the scholarly and the managerial perspectives on intra-
organizational conflict in multinational corporations (MNC) between headquarters (HQ) and …

Bartlett and Ghoshal's transnational 'solution'for managing the MNC remains popular among
scholars and practitioners alike. However, our in-depth qualitative study of Unilever, an …

Subsidiary power in multinational corporations: the subtle role of micro‐political bargaining
power | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access …

Recent sociological and psychological studies suggest that the power dynamics (coercive
and reward power), relational conflict, and the quality of the status-affecting relationship …

This article contributes to the growing stream of research on power and micro-politics in the
MNE. It is situated in the critical realist epistemology. It adopts Burawoy's extended case …

This paper marks a departure from the focus on external stakeholders in much research on
legitimacy and multinational corporations, adopting a social psychological approach to study …

In this paper we contribute to knowledge of power and politics in international business by
developing the understanding of the role of discourse and sensemaking in the subsidiary …

How might political ideology help to shape an organizational field? We explore the
discursive construction of the multinational hotel industry through analysis of one of its …