Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521549930 ISBN 13: 9780521549936

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Representing a path-breaking effort to look at multinational corporations in the round, this book emphasizes their scope, history and development, cultural and social implications, and governance problems. Starting with a primer on MNCs, eight chapters are devoted to a variety of aspects, including global elites. Their approach makes readers recognize that MNCs are not merely economic entities, but are part of a complex interplay of factors. In turn, studying MNCs will lead to reexamination of the globalization process.

About this title

Book Description

Leviathans is about globalization and the Multinational Corporations that figure so largely in that process. It differs from other books on the subject by look at the MNCs in the round, and not just as economic entities (though paying full heed to this aspect of them). Written by experts on various aspects of the MNCs, it weaves a coherent and compelling picture of the way these "businesses" affect almost all areas of our existence in society and how they play a major role - political, cultural, ad social--in the globalization that is reshaping so much of our lives.

About the Author

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus and Harvard Business School. He is internationally renowned as one of the most prominent and influential contemporary business historians. His major works, Strategy and Structure (1962), The Visible Hand (1977), and Scale and Scope (1990) have won many prices, including the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes. He is also co-editor, with Franco Amatori and Takashi Hikino, of Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Bruce Mazlish is Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publication include The Uncertain Sciences (1998), The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines (1993), A New Science: Breaking the Connections and the Birth of Sociology (1989) and Conceptualizing Global History (1993), which he co-edited with Ralph Buultjens. He has also written numerous articles on globalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521549930
• ISBN 13: 9780521549936
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Chandler Jr Alfred D., Mazlish Bruce