Toward a critical framework for understanding MNE operations: Revisiting Coca-Cola’s exit from India

Gopinath, C.; Prasad, Anshuman

doi:10.1177/1350508412440350

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“…As a result, the balance of power may shift away from the multinational partner even though the partner accounts for a large proportion of the local firm's inputs. For example, research shows that local government may intervene by specifically regulating technology transfers or the disclosure of some secret formulas (Gopinath and Prasad 2012). In this situation, MNCs may adapt to local political conditions so as to maintain their footholds in an important foreign market.…”

Section: Mnc Power Moderated By Government Influencementioning

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Practice Standardization in Cross-Border Activities of Multinational Corporations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Xia

Jiang

et al. 2014

Manag Int Rev

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This study examines the relationship between power dependence and practice standardization in the context of cross-border alliances. Existing studies have typically assumed that standardization or adaptation is a unilateral decision made by multinational corporations (MNCs) but ignored the influence of the relative power of multinational and local partners under conditions of government influence. Drawing on resource dependence theory (RDT), we argue that the power imbalance between multinational and local firms may shape the standardization of practices in their established alliances. The results, based on a sample of 243 Fortune 500 US companies, indicate that when the level of government influence is high, the positive effect of MNCs' resource importance on practice standardization diminishes and the negative effect of local firms' alternative resources becomes stronger. These findings suggest that RDT has important implications for understanding standardization versus adaptation in cross-border alliances.

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Section: Mnc Power Moderated By Government Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Practice Standardization in Cross-Border Activities of Multinational Corporations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Xia

Jiang

et al. 2014

Manag Int Rev

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“…Equally importantly, scholars also heed attention to the possible researcher overemphasis on texts at the expense of overlooking the context, which in turn may lead to misguiding inferences about focal organizational phenomena (Gopinath and Prasad, 2012;Prasad and Mir, 2002). The elaboration on the context forestalls the probable interpreter alienation to the text and portrays the temporal, cultural, and social environment where the text production takes place (Kipping, Wadhwani and Bucheli, 2014, p. 325).…”

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confidence: 99%

Discursive struggles over the Turkish agricultural cooperative field: liberal vs etatist frames during the early republican era, 1930-1933

Soydemir¹,

Erçek²

2020

Pressacademia

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Purpose -This study aims to solve a historical puzzle in Turkish cooperative history and illuminate the failure of a discursive medium, the journal of Türk Kooperatifçisi, to realize its ambitious goals of disseminating liberal ideas into the field of agricultural cooperatives. Given the strong state influence on Turkish cooperatives for over a century, this article strives to articulate when and how the anti-etatist cooperative discourse experienced an absolute defeat in the face of state hegemony. Methodology -This historical case study carries out hermeneutical discourse analysis on the archival data collected from the National Library of Turkey. Drawing on the first Turkish cooperative periodical, namely the Türk Kooperatifçisi, the researchers have read 214 articles, amounting to 966 pages. After a systematic interpretation of the collected data, the researchers have further situated archival evidence onto a plot and accordingly constructed a historical narrative, thereby illuminating the underlying reasons for the short life span (1930)(1931)(1932)(1933) of a liberal cooperative periodical in early Republican Turkey. Findings-The findings of this study suggest that towards the end of the 1920s, the sharp turn in the economic policy of Turkey triggered a series of events, leading the agricultural cooperatives to become state apparatuses. Correspondingly, the liberal frame regressed in the face of the etatist frame and became defeated in the discursive arena. Conclusion-The contest between frames both shapes and becomes shaped by the ideological shift in the Turkish state polity. However, this macro-level change yielded in the Turkish agricultural-cooperative field an open forum where opposing discourses challenge for the settlement of expedient cooperatives.

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“…In more recent hermeneutic formulations, methodology makes way for an openness to dialogue, and an interest in significance, that is, not meaning-per-se but meaning-for-me (Gadamer, 1989). In more critically-orientated hermeneutics, there is greater focus on uncovering hidden meaning and exploring whose interests are served by keeping it hidden (Gopinath and Prasad, 2012;Ricoeur, 1970). Across all these strands of hermeneutic theory, however, there is some sort of connection between interpretation and meaning, and an assumption that understanding is possible, whether through method, dialogue or critique (Tomkins and Eatough, 2018).…”

Section: A 'Turn To Experience' and The Politics Of Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle

Tomkins

2019

Tamara

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Kafka hermeneutics experience This paper explores the politics of interpretation from the perspective of hermeneutic theory. It presents a reading of Kafka's novel The Castle focused on critique of the business of interpretation, where suspicion unfolds in distorted, possibly fraudulent, sensemaking between protagonist, narrator and reader. The protagonist's mission is neither heroic nor a call to resistance to bureaucratic absurdity, but instead, the result of hubris, hoax, or even a slip of the pen, and it becomes impossible to unpick the perils of bureaucracy from the perils of interpretation, or to distinguish between error and insight. In mining discrepancies between justification, effort and reward of interpretation, Kafka punctures the mythology of understanding, rupturing the near-sacrosanct hermeneutic connection between interpretation and meaning. His work undermines both objective and subjective understandings, leaving us distrustful of both expert and experiential perspectives. In a post-truth era with its 'alternative facts', The Castle feels startlingly fresh and relevant.

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Toward a critical framework for understanding MNE operations: Revisiting Coca-Cola’s exit from India

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Practice Standardization in Cross-Border Activities of Multinational Corporations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Practice Standardization in Cross-Border Activities of Multinational Corporations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Discursive struggles over the Turkish agricultural cooperative field: liberal vs etatist frames during the early republican era, 1930-1933

‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!’ Radicalising hermeneutics with Kafka’s The Castle

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