Advancing research on political issues in and around multinational corporations (MNCs): The role of discursive sensemaking

Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation: Foundations, Applications and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 243-254

  Geppert, Mike ^a,b   Dörrenbächer, Christoph ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983244399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107283947.014     Document Type: Chapter

References (23)

1. Balogun, J., Jarzabkowski, P. and Vaara, E. 2011. Selling, resistance and reconciliation: a critical discursive approach to subsidiary role evolution in MNCs. Journal of International Business Studies, 42(6):765-786.
2. Birkinshaw, J. 2000. Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm. London: Sage.
3. Bouquet, C. and Birkinshaw, J. 2008. Managing power in the multinational corporation: how low-power actors gain influence. Journal of Management, 34(3): 477-508.
4. Clark, E. and Geppert, M. 2011. Subsidiary integration as identity construction and institution building: a political sensemaking approach. Journal of Management Studies, 48(2): 395-415.
5. Clegg. S. R., Courpasson, D. and Phillips, N. 2006. Power and Organizations. London: Sage.
6. Contu, A, Palpacuer, F., Balas, N. 2013. Multinational corporations’ politics and resistance to plant shutdowns: a comparative case study in the south of France. Human Relations 66(3): 363-384.
7. Dörrenbächer, C. and Geppert, M. 2009. Micro-political games in the multinational corporation: the case of mandate change. Management Revue, 20(4): 373-391.
8. Gammelgaard, J. 2009. Issue selling and bargaining power in intrafirm competition:the differentiating impact of the subsidiary management composition. Competition and Change, 13(3): 214-228.
9. Geppert, M. 2003. Sensemaking and politics in MNCs: a comparative analysis of vocabularies within in the global manufacturing discourse in one industrial sector. Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(4): 312-329.
10. Geppert, M. and Hollinshead, G. 2014. Multinationals, social agency and institutional change; variation by sector. Competition and Change, 18(2): 195-199.
11. Kostova, T. 1999. Transnational transfer of strategic organizational practices:a contextual perspective. Academy ofManagement Review, 24(2):308-324.
12. Kristensen, P. H. and Zeitlin, J. 2001. Themaking of a global firm: local pathways to multinational enterprise. In G.Morgan, P.H. Kristensen and R. Whitley (eds.), TheMultinational Firm. Organizing Across Institutional and National Divides. Oxford University Press, 172-195.
13. Monin, P., Noorderhaven, N., Vaara, E. and Kroon, D. 2013. Giving sense to and making sense of justice in postmerger integration. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1): 256-284.
14. Riad, S. 2005. The power of ‘organization culture’ as a discursive formation in merger integration. Organization Studies, 26(10): 1529-1554.
15. Royle, T. 2002. Resistance is useless! The problems of trade union organization in the European fast-food industry: the case of MacDonald’s. In M. Geppert, D. Matten and K.Williams (eds.), Challenges for European Management in a Global Context: Experiences from Britain and Germany. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: 189-214.
16. Smith, C. and Meiksins, P. 1995. System, society and dominance effects in cross-national organizational analysis.Work, Employment and Society, 9(12): 241-267.
17. Taplin, I. M. 2006. Strategic change and organizational restructuring: how managers negotiate change initiatives. Journal of InternationalManagement, 12(3): 284-301.
18. Vaara, E. 2003. Post-acquisition integration as sensemaking: glimpses of ambiguity, confusion, hypocrisy, and politicization. Journal of Management Studies, 40(4): 859-894.
19. Vaara, E. and Monin, P. 2010. A recursive perspective on discursive legitimation and organizational action in mergers and acquisitions. Organization Science, 21(1): 3-22.
20. Vaara, E. and Tienari, J. 2011. On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: an antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization Science, 22(2): 370-390.
21. Weick, K. E. 1995. Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
22. Whittle, A., Mueller, F., Gilchrist, A. and Lenney, P. forthcoming. Sensemaking, sense-censoring and strategic inaction: the discursive enactment of power and politics in a multinational corporation. Organization Studies.
23. Williams, K. and Geppert, M. 2011. Bargained globalization: employment relations providing robuts ‘tool kits’ for socio-political strategizing in MNCs in Germany. In C. Dörrenbächer and M. Geppert (eds.), Politics and Power in the International Corporation: the Role of Institutions, Interests and Identities. Cambridge University Press, 72-100.