Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Part I A Road Map to Responsible Organising -- 1 Responsible Organising: An Introduction -- Urgent Need for Change -- Responsible Organising -- Responsibility in a...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving cities and municipalities have received little research attention. This is unfortunate because cities are fundamentally important in the global economy and their influence is likely to grow further. This chapter takes stock of extant research and offers...

In this paper, we focus on ethnocentrism as a practice that persists among top managers at MNC headquarters and steers their efforts in orchestrating the global network of subsidiaries. While the extant literature has viewed ethnocentrism as a detrimental attitude that top management seek to...

Our review shows that M&A research fails to discuss questions of gender. In this chapter, we aim to understand this lack of sensitivity to gender in analyzing how M&A processes unfold. We discuss strategic and people-oriented M&A research, seek to explain why gender and gender relations are not...

In mergers and acquisitions (M&A), special emphasis is usually placed on the strategic and financial goals of the deal, while the psychological, cultural, and human resource implications do not receive as much attention. This book examines the dynamics of the sociocultural processes inherent in...