Multinational Corporations In Political Environments: Ethics, Values And Strategies

Haley (strategic management and business administration, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville), studying the anti-apartheid divesture movement in the 1980s, presents a theory on how the differing pressures of various stakeholders influence a corporation's decision to leave a particular host country. She tests the relative effectiveness of stakeholder strategies, including boycotts and sanctions. She proposes that corporations change to maintain homeostatic equilibrium or stability in a system that includes headquarters and subsidiaries. The actions, ethics, values of stakeholders in home and host states affect managerial decisions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Usha C. V. Haley (PhD, Stern School of Business, New York University) is a Professor of Management, focusing on Strategic Management and International Business, in the School of Business at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut. She has more than 90 books, journal articles, book chapters and research presentations on international strategic management. She has taught International Business and Strategic Management at major universities in the United States (including Harvard University), Singapore (at the National University of Singapore), Australia (at the Australian National University), and Mexico (at ITESM, Monterrey Campus). Additionally, she has taught in major corporate, governmental and universities' executive-development programs, for top and middle managers and policy makers, in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Finland, India and Singapore. She also serves as a consultant on issues concerning strategic management and foreign direct investment for several multinational corporations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia and as Regional Editor (Asia Pacific) for two academic journals. In 2003, she received a Life-Time Achievement award in Management from the Literati Club (UK) and a panel of businesspersons, policymakers and academics, for her contributions to the understanding of business in the Asia Pacific. She is listed in Who’s Who in America.