Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History

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.

Author: Alfred D. Chandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/17/2005
Pages: 247
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.52w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780521549936

About the Author
Mazlish, Bruce: - 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.Chandler, Alfred D.: - 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).

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