Preface PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: AN Introduction to Post-Millennium Perspectives - Christoph Dorrenbacher and Mike Geppert The East India Company: The First Modern Multinationals? - Stewart Clegg PART II: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ESTABLISHED DEBATES The Role of the Headquarters in the Contemporary MNC: A Contingency Model - William G. Egelhoff and Joachim Wolf Between Local Mooring and Global Orientation: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective on the Contemporary Multinational Corporation - Peter Walgenbach, Gili S. Drori and Markus A. Hollerer What the Shared Industry and Country of Origin Bring: Analogous Sequences in the Internationalization of Finnish Paper MNCs - Juha Laurila Altered States of Consciousness: MNCs and Ethnographic Studies - Fiona Moore PART III: NEW CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN THE STUDY OF THE MNC Language as a Meeting Ground for Research on the MNC and Organization Theory - Rebecca Piekkari and D. Eleanor Westney Headquarter-Subsidiary Relations in the Multinational Corporation as a Discursive Struggle - Alexei Koveshnikov, Mats Ehrnrooth and Eero Vaara Applying Critical Realism to the MNC: Exploring New Realities in Staffing and Expatriation - Chris Rees and Chris Smith Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships from a Convention Theory Perspective: Plural Orders of Worth, Arrangements and Form-Giving Activites - Julia Brandl and Anna Schneider The Multinational Corporation as a Playing Field of Power: A Bourdieusian Approach - Giuseppe Delmestri and Mara Brumana PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY MNC: AN INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY POLITICIZED ORGANIZATION Gendering the MNC - Michal Frenkel MNCs and Politicization from Outside - Sabrina Zajak The Dark Side of MNCs - George Cairns and Sharif As-Saber Private Governance as Regulatory Substitute or Complement? A Comparative Institutional Approach to CSR Adoption by Multinational Corporations - Gregory Jackson and Nikolas Rathert.