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Mike Geppert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building a political sensemaking approach
Journal of Management Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Ed Clark, Mike GeppertAbstract:This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building. The different characteristics that local and head office managers attribute to the subsidiary establish diverse interests in and political stances towards it and, through actions to resolve these differences, senior decision makers shape the subsidiary’s strategic and structural location in the MNC. We illustrate this argumentation with reference to post-socialist acquisitions by Western multinationals, whose contrasting Institutional and management experiences put the problem of multiple contexts and subsidiary integration into sharp relief. This approach complements mainstream international business research by attending directly to the neglected processual nature of subsidiary integration and examining different socio-political dynamics resulting from sensemaking and sensegiving interactions between key actors in the MNC.
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subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building a political sensemaking approach
Journal of Management Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Ed Clark, Mike GeppertAbstract:This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual, and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building. The different characteristics that local and head office managers attribute to the subsidiary establish diverse interests in and political stances towards it and, through actions to resolve these differences, senior decision makers shape the subsidiary's strategic and structural location in the MNE. We illustrate this argumentation with reference to post-socialist acquisitions by Western multinationals, whose contrasting Institutional and management experiences put the problem of multiple contexts and subsidiary integration into sharp relief. This approach complements mainstream international business research by attending directly to the neglected processual nature of subsidiary integration and examining different socio-political dynamics resulting from sensemaking and sensegiving interactions between key actors in the MNE.
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transnational Institution Building and the multinational corporation an emerging field of research
Human Relations, 2006Co-Authors: Mike Geppert, Dirk Matten, Peter WalgenbachAbstract:Since the 1980s, the international business and management field has produced a large amount of analysis and research on the multinational corporation (MNC) as an organization. Particularly influential has been the work of Prahalad, Doz and Bartlett (see particularly Doz et al., 1981; Bartlett, 1986; Prahalad & Doz, 1987) who, drawing on contingency theory, developed the integration-responsiveness framework to depict the different environmental forces exerting conflicting demands on MNCs. This literature is concerned, for example, with how organizations respond to task-related demands by centralizing or decentralizing activities. However, the analysis of environmental forces is restricted to the task or technical environment and the effects it has on the structuring of organizations. In contrast to this by and large more strategy-oriented literature, MNCs have not received sustained attention from other organization theorists (see for exceptions, Rosenzweig & Singh, 1991; Morgan et al., 2001, 2005; Westney & Zaheer, 2001; Ghoshal & Westney, 2005). This is surprising; after all, it would seem that MNCs offer great potential for developing and testing organization theories (Evans, 1981) and research on the organizational aspects of MNCs could be enriched by the insights of organization theorists (Ghoshal & Westney, 2005). These arguments apply especially to the different strands of Institutional theory which emphasize the relationships between organizations and their Institutional environments, namely new Institutionalism (Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Powell & DiMaggio, 1991; Scott,
Neil E Harrison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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governing water contentious transnational politics and global Institution Building
Perspectives on Politics, 2006Co-Authors: Neil E HarrisonAbstract:Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building. By Ken Conca. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 456 p. $70.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. Ken Conca presents what is close to a definitive statement of the transnational politics of water, but his larger purpose is to demonstrate and correct the inadequacies of current theories of international environmental politics (IEP). This well-written and well-argued book is a theoretical advance on the regime theory commonly used in IEP and has garnered two prestigious prizes: the Harold and Margaret Sprout award and the Chadwick F. Alger Prize.
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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critical junctures and Institution Building regional cooperation on free trade and food security in east asia
Pacific Review, 2016Co-Authors: Hidetaka YoshimatsuAbstract:AbstractThis study examines conditions under which states in East Asia engage in the development of regional Institutions. It assumes that crucial external events and shocks, which produce specific historical breakpoints – critical junctures – constitute a significant breakpoint at which the regional states willingly elevated a path to develop regional Institutions to a new level. The analysis of the development of regional Institutions for a free trade area and food stock for emergency revealed that regional states in East Asia changed their views on the evolving reality created by external shocks and such changes led to the creation of new regional Institutions.
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state market relations in east asia and Institution Building in the asia pacific
East Asia, 2000Co-Authors: Hidetaka YoshimatsuAbstract:In the economic development of East Asain countries during the 1980s and 1990s, there has emerged a distinct form of capitalism characterized by active state intervetion in the economy and close state-business relations. This article attempts to identify the key ingredients of the relations between the state and market that has led to industrial development in East Asia. It also explores how these characteristics are reflected Institution-Building in the Asia-Pacific as, for example, in the case of APEC where conflicts have developed between the Asian and western members in their attempts to promote economic cooperation
Ed Clark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building a political sensemaking approach
Journal of Management Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Ed Clark, Mike GeppertAbstract:This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building. The different characteristics that local and head office managers attribute to the subsidiary establish diverse interests in and political stances towards it and, through actions to resolve these differences, senior decision makers shape the subsidiary’s strategic and structural location in the MNC. We illustrate this argumentation with reference to post-socialist acquisitions by Western multinationals, whose contrasting Institutional and management experiences put the problem of multiple contexts and subsidiary integration into sharp relief. This approach complements mainstream international business research by attending directly to the neglected processual nature of subsidiary integration and examining different socio-political dynamics resulting from sensemaking and sensegiving interactions between key actors in the MNC.
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subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building a political sensemaking approach
Journal of Management Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Ed Clark, Mike GeppertAbstract:This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual, and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and Institution Building. The different characteristics that local and head office managers attribute to the subsidiary establish diverse interests in and political stances towards it and, through actions to resolve these differences, senior decision makers shape the subsidiary's strategic and structural location in the MNE. We illustrate this argumentation with reference to post-socialist acquisitions by Western multinationals, whose contrasting Institutional and management experiences put the problem of multiple contexts and subsidiary integration into sharp relief. This approach complements mainstream international business research by attending directly to the neglected processual nature of subsidiary integration and examining different socio-political dynamics resulting from sensemaking and sensegiving interactions between key actors in the MNE.
Amitav Acharya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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regionalism and multilateralism essays on cooperative security in the asia pacific
2003Co-Authors: Amitav AcharyaAbstract:These essays, written between 1990 to the present, cover the most significant phase of multilateral Institution-Building in the Asia Pacific region. They deal with: the emergence of regionalism in Southeast Asia; ASEAN's transition to the post-Cold War era; the role of the ASEAN Regional Forum; the 'engagement' of China; the changing relationship between sovereignty and regionalism; Prospects for the regional Institutions such as ASEAN, APEC and the ARF after the Asian economic crisis. The essays address the most challenging issues of regional order and articulate an Institutionalist understanding of international relations in the region.
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ideas identity and Institution Building from the asean way to the asia pacific way
Pacific Review, 1997Co-Authors: Amitav AcharyaAbstract:Abstract This article examines the extent to which the development of multilateral Institutions in the Asia‐Pacific region may be viewed as an exercise in identity‐Building. It argues that Institution‐Building in this region is more of a ‘process‐orientated’ phenomenon, rather than simply being an outcome of structural changes in the international system (such as the decline of American hegemony). The process combines universal principles of multilateralism with some of the relatively distinct modes of socialization prevailing in the region. Crucial to the process have been the adaptation of four ideas: ‘cooperative security’, ‘open regionalism’, ‘soft regionalism’, and ‘flexible consensus’. The construction of a regional identity, which may be termed the ‘Asia‐Pacific Way’ has also been facilitated by the avoidance of Institutional grand designs and the adoption of a consensual and cautious approach extrapolated from the ‘ASEAN Way’. The final section of the article examines the limitations and dangers o...
