MNCs and Politicization from Outside
Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post Millennium Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-78635-386-3, eISBN: 978-1-78635-385-6
Publication date: 17 February 2017
Abstract
This contribution conceptualizes the politicization of MNCs from outside – the processes by which MNCs become confronted with demands for regulation and engage in political contestation with other non-state actors. It compares two global industries, athletic footwear and toys, to show that the dynamics of politicization follow different trajectories, which are only partially to explain with structural differences across industry fields. If politicization leads to increasing political functioning of business or to a depoliticization of criticism depends to a great extend on the agency of business and their capacity to strategically counter mobilization, but also on the difficulties for activist to construct continuing collective action across a diverse range of cultural-institutional settings.
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Citation
Zajak, S. (2017), "MNCs and Politicization from Outside", Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post Millennium Perspectives (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 49), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 389-423. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20160000049013
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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