Peer Hull Kristensen is Professor of the Sociology of Business Firms and Work Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, where he is also Director of the PhD programme of the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology. He is editor and co-editor of numerous comparative studies of economic organization, including Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations (OUP, 1997) and The Multinational Firm (OUP 2001).Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a Director of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy. He is author of numerous books, including Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (OUP 2000) and Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (OUP, 2003).

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• 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations as Lead Agents of Globalization? ; PART I: LOCAL PATHWAYS TO MUTLINATIONAL ENTERPRISE ; 2. Associating Local Strategies of Global Reach: Horsens, Lake Mills, Eastbourne, and APV ; PART II: A GLOBAL GAME ENACTED BY LOCAL PLAYERS ; 3. Horsens: Local Strategies on a Global Stage ; 4. Lake Mills: Self-Limiting Strategies of a Solidaristic Plant Community ; 6. Lygon Place: A Corporate Headquarters at War With Itself ; 7. Strategic Positions and Positional Strategies ; PART III: MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES AND HUMAN PROMISES OF GLOBALIZATION ; 8. Managing the Multinational: Administrative and Human Challenges ; 9. The Functions of the Executive Revisited: contributions, Inducements, and Constitutional Ordering ; 10. Pragmatic Solutions: From Procedural Justice to Learning by Monitoring ; 11. Creating a Multinational Public for the Corporation ; 12. Conclusion: Sideshadowing the Future of Globalization

Peer Hull Kristensen is Professor of the Sociology of Business Firms and Work Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, where he is also Director of the PhD programme of the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology. He is editor and co-editor of numerous comparative studies of economic organization, including Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations (OUP, 1997) and The Multinational Firm (OUP 2001).Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a Director of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy. He is author of numerous books, including Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (OUP 2000) and Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (OUP, 2003).

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• 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations as Lead Agents of Globalization? ; PART I: LOCAL PATHWAYS TO MUTLINATIONAL ENTERPRISE ; 2. Associating Local Strategies of Global Reach: Horsens, Lake Mills, Eastbourne, and APV ; PART II: A GLOBAL GAME ENACTED BY LOCAL PLAYERS ; 3. Horsens: Local Strategies on a Global Stage ; 4. Lake Mills: Self-Limiting Strategies of a Solidaristic Plant Community ; 6. Lygon Place: A Corporate Headquarters at War With Itself ; 7. Strategic Positions and Positional Strategies ; PART III: MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES AND HUMAN PROMISES OF GLOBALIZATION ; 8. Managing the Multinational: Administrative and Human Challenges ; 9. The Functions of the Executive Revisited: contributions, Inducements, and Constitutional Ordering ; 10. Pragmatic Solutions: From Procedural Justice to Learning by Monitoring ; 11. Creating a Multinational Public for the Corporation ; 12. Conclusion: Sideshadowing the Future of Globalization

Peer Hull Kristensen is Professor of the Sociology of Business Firms and Work Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, where he is also Director of the PhD programme of the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology. He is editor and co-editor of numerous comparative studies of economic organization, including Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations (OUP, 1997) and The Multinational Firm (OUP 2001).Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a Director of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy. He is author of numerous books, including Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (OUP 2000) and Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (OUP, 2003).

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• 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations as Lead Agents of Globalization? ; PART I: LOCAL PATHWAYS TO MUTLINATIONAL ENTERPRISE ; 2. Associating Local Strategies of Global Reach: Horsens, Lake Mills, Eastbourne, and APV ; PART II: A GLOBAL GAME ENACTED BY LOCAL PLAYERS ; 3. Horsens: Local Strategies on a Global Stage ; 4. Lake Mills: Self-Limiting Strategies of a Solidaristic Plant Community ; 6. Lygon Place: A Corporate Headquarters at War With Itself ; 7. Strategic Positions and Positional Strategies ; PART III: MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES AND HUMAN PROMISES OF GLOBALIZATION ; 8. Managing the Multinational: Administrative and Human Challenges ; 9. The Functions of the Executive Revisited: contributions, Inducements, and Constitutional Ordering ; 10. Pragmatic Solutions: From Procedural Justice to Learning by Monitoring ; 11. Creating a Multinational Public for the Corporation ; 12. Conclusion: Sideshadowing the Future of Globalization