Sensemaking and Politics in MNCs

Geppert, Mike

doi:10.1177/1056492603259058

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“…Obviously, the focus on crisis biases the findings but at the same time reveals corporate agency most clearly. For studies on corporate sense-making under more routinized conditions, see Geppert (2003) and Kristensen and Zeitlin (2005).…”

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“And of course our major contribution remains to run a decent business.” Making sense of Shell's sense-making in Nigeria during the 1990s

Hofferberth¹

2017

Bus. Polit.

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The intellectual engagement with multinational enterprises in International Relations has found a new home within the narratives of global governance and corporate social responsibility. Both narratives seem to agree that the role of business has changed as state capacities to provide governance assumingly have diminished and, based on broader social and political responsibilities, enterprises began to participate more actively in the provision of collective goods. Increased participation alone, however, does not reveal how corporate actors define and make sense of their responsibilities and their roles within global governance. In fact, focusing on corporate responsibilities and corporate governance contributions does not consider enterprises as actors in their own right who actively interpret and respond to changes in their normative environments. To fill this gap, the article proposes a framework that conceptualizes corporate agency as inherently social and creative. This framework, which can be applied to different contexts, is illustrated by reconstructing interpretative frames and self-understandings advanced by Shell in response to its crisis in Nigeria during the 1990s. Based on this reconstruction, Shell failed to develop and communicate a clear understanding of its social responsibilities, and its overall integration into global governance is likely to remain an ambiguous process in which uncertainty and indeterminacy prevail.

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“And of course our major contribution remains to run a decent business.” Making sense of Shell's sense-making in Nigeria during the 1990s

Hofferberth¹

2017

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“…Narrative studies have also explained how legitimacy may be constructed through compelling stories based on taken-for-granted narrative structures and dominant narratives that legitimate objects or subjects (Geppert, 2003; Golant & Sillince, 2007; Mercier-Roy & Mailhot, 2019). Such taken-for-granted structures in which narratives are embedded have also been called metanarratives.…”

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Discursive Legitimation: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and Agenda for Future Research

Vaara,

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Etchanchu

2024

Journal of Management

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In recent years, we have seen a proliferation of research on discursive legitimation, which has shed light on how legitimacy is established through communication. However, this body of work remains fragmented, and there is a need to synthesize and develop a more comprehensive and in-depth theoretical understanding of this vibrant area of research. This article aims to address this need by providing an integrative theoretical framework and outlining an agenda for future research. The framework encompasses five key elements of discursive legitimation: strategies, positions, foundations, temporality, and arenas. Drawing on this framework, we present a research agenda that highlights key topics related to these elements along with theoretical and methodological considerations cutting across them. Our contribution lies in conceptualizing discursive legitimation as a multifaceted and dynamic phenomenon, offering a complementary framework to existing models and paving the way for future studies, and placing discursive strategies—which have been the focus of prior research—in context by highlighting the critical role of key discursive elements in enabling or constraining legitimation processes.

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Locational boundness of resource, compatibility of production, and downside risks of multinationality

Song

2022

Global Strategy Journal

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We extend the multinational operational flexibility literature by examining how the characteristics of resources and capabilities within a portfolio of international investments affect its downside risks. We postulate that non-location bound resources and capabilities within an international investment portfolio are crucial to reducing switching costs and enhancing cross-country switchability, thus curbing downside risks. Our large sample of Korean multinational corporations reveals that globally sourced production inputs or

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Sensemaking and Politics in MNCs

Cited by 52 publications

References 14 publications

“And of course our major contribution remains to run a decent business.” Making sense of Shell's sense-making in Nigeria during the 1990s

“And of course our major contribution remains to run a decent business.” Making sense of Shell's sense-making in Nigeria during the 1990s

Discursive Legitimation: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and Agenda for Future Research

Locational boundness of resource, compatibility of production, and downside risks of multinationality

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