National structures and multinational corporate behavior: enduring differences in the age of globalization

1 January 1997

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Organization

Vol. 51 (1) , 1-30
https://doi.org/10.1162/002081897550285

Abstract

Liberal and critical theorists alike claim that the world political economy is becoming globalized. If they are right, leading corporations should gradually be losing their national characters and converging in their fundamental strategies and operations. Multinational corporations (MNCs) should be the harbingers of deep global integration. In fact, recent evidence shows little blurring or convergence at the cores of firms based in Germany, Japan, or the United States.

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