The Multinational Corporation in China
Controlling Interests
Organization and Strategy
1. Edition August 2006
260 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
INTRODUCTION.
Part I: Theory and Context.
1 Control and Coordination within Multinational Corporations:
The undeveloped state of theory.
2 Multinational Corporations in China: The institutional
context.
Part II: The Cases.
3 "According to Plan": Control and coordination
through the discipline of planning in an American multinational
corporation in China.
4 "Control and Coordination through Goals": The role
of a paramount corporate goal in managing an American multinational
corporation in China.
5 "Global Replication": Coordination through the
discipline of replication of organizational processes in an
American multinational corporation in China.
6 "The Genetics of an Operating System": Control and
coordination through the transmission of shared management
processes in an American multinational corporation in China.
Part III: Comparison and Analysis across the Cases.
7 Cross-Case Comparison Summary.
8 Setting Goals, Selecting Strategies, and Adopting
Organizational Forms.
9 Controlling and Coordinating People: Human resources
management policies and practices.
10 Control and Coordination of Money and Factories: Finance and
manufacturing.
11 Control and Coordination of Responses to China's
Institutional Environments.
Conclusion: Informing the Theory and Practice of Control and
Coordination in the Multinational Corporation.
Notes.
References.
Index.
China; strikes the right balance between theory and practice."
Oded Shenkar, The Ohio State University
"I have found Stephen Todd Rudman's Controlling Interests
to be a fascinating study of the problems and possibilities of
achieving effective coordination and control of multinational
corporate subsidiaries located in China. Given the rapidly
expanding importance of China based enterprise to our global
political economy, this book based on in-depth case studies of the
interactions between MNCs and their Chinese affiliates provides
critical insights for managers and scholars alike which will enable
them better to understand the complexities of operating in
the
twenty-first century 'Middle Kingdom'." Edwin M. Epstein,
University of California, Berkeley
"Professor Rudman has written the definitive guide to
understanding the Chinese business environment and its complex
management practices. Well written, thoroughly researched and
supported by actual cases, this is an essential resource for any
executive doing business in China and with China." Michael
A. Mische, University of Southern California
years in business, as Vice President of a publicly-quoted
manufacturer, general counsel for the motor carrier subsidiary of a
major US railroad, international tax attorney for a major
multinational bank, and senior counsel for a major international
container shipping company. He has lectured at the Haas School of
Business, the University of California at Berkeley and is currently
Assistant Professor in the International Business Department at San
Francisco State University.
