Multinational corporations as political players

Evelyne Léonard, Valeria Pulignano, Ryan Lamare and Tony Edwards
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Evelyne Léonard: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Valeria Pulignano: KU Leuven, Belgium
Ryan Lamare: Penn State University, USA
Tony Edwards: King’s College London, Great Britain

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2014, vol. 20, issue 2, 171-182

Abstract: This introductory article to the special issue insists on the need to examine the specific processes and means by which transnational corporations are currently establishing and increasing their power in society. Understanding power and politics in and around multinational corporations requires conceptual and empirical approaches able to address their transnational character, with their action embedded in multiple institutional environments, with hierarchies linking distant headquarters and subsidiaries and involving numerous actors with diverse interests, and with differing industrial relations contexts. Articles in this issue address three key questions: how do transnational corporations leverage their characteristics and organization in support of their own power? How do they interact with the different institutional environments in which they operate, and what power relations do these interactions imply? To what extent do they have the capacity to determine and apply their own rules, independently of established institutional regulations?

Keywords: Transnational corporations; multinational companies; power and politics; employee representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258914525559

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