Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (Editor)

Representing a path-breaking effort to look at multinational corporations in the round, this book emphasizes their scope, history and development, cultural and social implications, and governance problems. Starting with a primer on MNCs, eight chapters are devoted to a variety of aspects, including global elites. Their approach makes readers recognize that MNCs are not merely economic entities, but are part of a complex interplay of factors. In turn, studying MNCs will lead to reexamination of the globalization process.

Genres: Politics, Economics, History

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 17, 2005

About the author

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University. Called "the Herodotus of business history," he wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization.

Reviews

[Daniel Gusev · Rating 5 out of 5]

A still relevant and educational foundation to the role MNEs still play and the rules the both have followed and formed in the current (ending) growth cycle.

[Maria Antip · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good historical exercise on the birth and rise of multinationals. Given the reputation of the two editors I must say I expected more. Nonetheless, an educational read.