The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests (Organization and Strategy)

The Multinational Corporation In China: Controlling Interests Addresses How Multinational Corporations Control And Coordinate Their Worldwide Affiliates, With An Inside Story On Contemporary 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.--book Jacket. Control And Coordination Within Multinational Corporations : The Undeveloped State Of Theory -- Multinational Corporations In China : The Institutional Context -- According To Plan : Control And Coordination Through The Discipline Of Planning In An American Multinational Corporation In China -- Control And Coordination Through Goals : The Role Of A Paramount Corporate Goal In Managing An American Multinational Corporation In China -- Global Replication : Control And Coordination Through The Discipline Of Replication Of Organizational Processes In An American Multinational Corporation In China -- The Genetics Of An Operating System : Control And Coordination Through The Transmission Of Shared Management Processes In An American Multinational Corporation In China -- Cross-case Comparison Summary -- Setting Goals, Selecting Strategies, And Adopting Organizational Forms -- Controlling And Coordinating People : Human Resources Management Policies And Practices -- Control And Coordination Of Money And Factories : Finance And Manufacturing -- Control And Coordination Of Responses To China's Institutional Environments -- Conclusion : Informing The Theory And Practice Of Control And Coordination In The Multinational Corporation. Stephen Todd Rudman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [215]-230) And Index. Series Editors’ Foreword......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 11 PART I Theory and Context......Page 25 1 Control and Coordination within Multinational Corporations: the Undeveloped State of Theory......Page 27 2 Multinational Corporations in China: the Institutional Context......Page 38 PART II The Cases......Page 67 3 “According to Plan”: Control and Coordination through the Discipline of Planning in an American Multinational C......Page 69 4 “Control and Coordination through Goals”: the Role of a Paramount Corporate Goal in Managing an American Multina......Page 83 5 “Global Replication”: Control and Coordination through the Discipline of Replication of Organizational Processes......Page 96 6 “The Genetics of an Operating System”: Control and Coordination through the Transmission of Shared Management Pro......Page 115 PART III Comparison and Analysis across the Cases......Page 133 7 Cross-Case Comparison Summary......Page 135 8 Setting Goals, Selecting Strategies, and Adopting Organizational Forms......Page 154 9 Controlling and Coordinating People: Human Resources Management Policies and Practices......Page 168 10 Control and Coordination of Money and Factories: Finance and Manufacturing......Page 189 11 Control and Coordination of Responses to China’s Institutional Environments......Page 198 Conclusion: Informing the Theory and Practice of Control and Coordination in the Multinational Corporation......Page 206 Notes......Page 217 References......Page 225 Index......Page 241

The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses the question of how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with a fascinating inside story on contemporary China.

• Focuses on dynamic management control processes by four large US multinational corporations of their China operations.
  
• Based on the author's own research, including personal interviews with senior managers, and discussions with consultants, lawyers, and government officials.
  
• Reviews internal as well as publicly available company documents, and books, newspapers and periodicals dealing with relevant industries and with China.
  
• Enables readers to understand how multinational corporations are managed.
  
• Facilitates the development of a coherent theory of management control.

Addresses how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates. This book focuses on the control and coordination by four large US multinational corporations of their China operations. Sources include personal interviews with senior managers, and discussions with lawyers, and government officials