Multinational Corporations In Political Environments

Ethics, Values And Strategies

By: Usha C. V. Haley

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Hardcover | 12 November 2001

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"Multinational Corporations in Political Environments" advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states. Theories of international business have often ignored the complexity of corporate decisions about leaving foreign countries, generally assuming that the economic and competitive reasons that prompt multinational corporations to enter host states also explain their subsequent reasons for leaving. Alternatively, this book proposes a theory of how different stakeholders' values and ethics shape multinationals' strategic leaving behaviours. Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders' actions influenced multinationals' behaviours. Detailed analyses of subsidiary-level archival data over a period of four crucial years revealed that the multinationals engaged in diverse forms of leaving reflecting their involvements, strategies and stakeholders' influences. The research, the first to test which stakeholders' strategies, including boycotts and sanctions, influenced multinationals and which did not, and to identify their effects on multinationals' behaviours, has enormous implications for policy makers, managers and social activists. The book also applies the findings and explores implications for recent stakeholders' attempts at influencing multinationals and governments, such as Nike in Asia and the Burmese government, through sanctions, resolutions and boycotts.

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Foreword	p. xviii
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Overview and Outline	p. 3
Multinational Corporations as Catalysts	p. 9
Multinational Corporations as Change Agents	p. 11
Rationales for Presence	p. 12
Relations with Stakeholders	p. 24
Theoretical Assumptions	p. 39
Reassessing Theories of Multinational Corporations	p. 42
Applying the Theories to South Africa during Apartheid	p. 53
Leaving or Staying in South Africa	p. 57
Multinational Corporations as Chameleons	p. 67
The Development of Multinational Corporations	p. 69
Forces for Organizational Development	p. 69
Rationales for Organizational Development	p. 73
Relations with Stakeholders over Time	p. 88
Why Multinational Corporations Leave Host States	p. 92
A Political-Action Framework for Multinationals	p. 93
Hypothesizing why a Multinational may Leave	p. 103
Data, Analyses and Results	p. 123
Methodology	p. 125
The Setting	p. 125
The Time Frame	p. 128
The Population	p. 132
The Variables	p. 140
Analyses and Results	p. 163
The Analyses	p. 163
The Results	p. 167
Generalizability of the Results	p. 198
Theoretical and Strategic Implications	p. 201
Understanding and Influencing Multinational Corporations	p. 203
Understanding Multinationals	p. 203
Influencing Multinationals	p. 212
References	p. 227
Index	p. 259
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