WINNER OF THE GEORGE R. TERRY ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT BOOK AWARD 2009

-This superb study of a Brazilian state company's transition to private ownership is marvellously comprehensive in its coverage of the firm's entire life span and the full spectrum of its interactions with all aspects of its environment. The outstanding quality of this volume's contribution to co-evolutionary thinking and institutional and political theory has invaluable implications for culture, politics, identity, learning, and adaptation, making it an absolute 'must read' for all organization, management and...

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing.

• Based on the author's detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings.
• The author uses this study to empirically describe how learning, knowing and organizing are practised.
• Centred on the concepts of -knowing in practice- and the -texture- of organizational knowledge.
• Gives a rich account of how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve.

The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses the question of how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with a fascinating inside story on contemporary China.

• Focuses on dynamic management control processes by four large US multinational corporations of their China operations.
  
• Based on the author's own research, including personal interviews with senior managers, and discussions with consultants, lawyers, and government officials.
  
• Reviews internal as well as publicly...