Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):170-172; doi:10.1093/es/khj009
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Bruce Mazlish, eds. Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-521-84061-9, $65.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54993-0, $22.99 (paper).
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The advertising extract, which is this books first sentence, reads "Leviathans represents a path-breaking effort to look at multinational corporations in the round, emphasizing especially their scope, history, development, culture and social implication, and governance problems" (p. i). Given the appropriately global prestige of the editors and of several of the chapters authors, ones curiosity is unavoidably piqued. While few readers will ultimately judge the book to be path-breaking, many will welcome its contribution to
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