The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests

INTRODUCTION.

Part I: Theory and Context.

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

2 Multinational Corporations in China: The institutional context.

Part II: The Cases.

3 “According to Plan”: Control and coordination through the discipline of planning in an American multinational corporation in China.

4 “Control and Coordination through Goals”: The role of a paramount corporate goal in managing an American multinational corporation in China.

5 “Global Replication”: Coordination through the discipline of replication of organizational processes in an American multinational corporation in China.

6 “The Genetics of an Operating System”: Control and coordination through the transmission of shared management processes 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 Adopting Organizational Forms.

9 Controlling and Coordinating People: Human resources management policies and practices.

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

11 Control and Coordination of Responses to China’s Institutional Environments.

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

Notes.

References.

Index.