Authors:

  • Rawi Abdelal

Excerpt

The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and Power. Rawi Abdelal, May 20, 2015 , Paper. "Multinational firms unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal relationship between multinational firms and geopolitical systems. The links between multinational firms form a distinct type of international system for the private sector—one that is simultaneously enmeshed in geopolitics and international markets even as it is also autonomous from them..." Link