Multinationals by Tugendhat Christopher (31 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ has some tears.

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Reprint. Paperback. 287pp. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Reprint. Paperback. 287pp. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. First American Edition, stated. --------Black cloth, bright silver spine letters, book is 9 1/2" tall. 242 pages, with charts-----FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Fine condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Multinationals (1981) by Christopher Tugendhat Pelican Books | ISBN: 0140216952 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books There are books that explain the modern world by means of grand theories, dramatic slogans, and a great deal of rhetorical steam. Then there are books like The Multinationals , which take one of the central forces shaping late twentieth-century life?large corporations operating across borders?and examine it with the cool, slightly formidable air of someone determined to understand how the machine actually works. A very Pelican sort of virtue. Christopher Tugendhat?s subject is the multinational corporation, that curious modern creature capable of being at once efficient, baffling, powerful, and faintly sinister depending on one?s point of view. By 1981 these entities were already becoming impossible to ignore: sprawling commercial empires extending their reach across countries, labour markets, governments, supply chains, and daily life, often while maintaining the outward appearance of merely selling ordinary things in a brisk and organised manner. Tugendhat steps in to ask what these organisations are, how they function, and what their rise means for politics, economics, and society. One of the pleasures of a book like this is that it captures a moment when the global corporate world was still being analysed in terms that now feel both historical and unnervingly current. The names may have changed, the technologies may have become shinier, and the jargon may have acquired more PowerPoint, but the essential questions remain much the same. Who really holds power in a world of giant companies? What happens when capital is more mobile than governments? How do states, workers, and citizens negotiate with entities that seem to belong everywhere and nowhere at once? In other words, the usual cheerful bedtime matters. The title itself is splendidly direct. The Multinationals does not waste time trying to seduce the casual browser with fake drama or promises of transformation. It announces, in firm Pelican style, that this is the subject and you may now sit down and think about it properly. There is something almost heroic about such publishing confidence. One misses it. Modern equivalents would probably be called Global Titans: How Hidden Corporate Networks Rewired Your World and come with a silhouette of a skyscraper at sunset. Yet despite the dry title, the topic is hardly lifeless. Multinational corporations are among the great protagonists of the modern age: shaping trade, employment, regulation, resources, and politics while insisting they are merely pursuing efficiencies and shareholder value. Books like this reveal the drama concealed beneath the managerial language. Behind every merger, overseas operation, and tax structure lies a struggle over power, wealth, sovereignty, and control. It is all rather gripping once one notices. Published as a Pelican Book in 1981, this volume belongs to that excellent old tradition of serious paperback non-fiction intended for the intelligent general reader. Pelican specialised in making complicated subjects feel both accessible and important without insulting the audience?s brain. The result is often a kind of durable clarity that ages surprisingly well. One reads such books not just for information, but for the pleasure of seeing a large subject explained by someone who assumes you can keep up. There is, naturally, a certain irony in reading a forty-year-old analysis of multinational corporations in an age when those same forces have become even larger, more digitised, and in some cases less visible. What may once have seemed a timely study now reads partly as history and partly as prologue. The world Tugendhat examined did not go away. It simply put on better branding and acquired cloud infrastructure. This copy is in good condition , showing the expected signs of age and reading but remaining sound, presentable, and entirely ready for another round of thoughtful consultation. It is exactly the sort of book that suits a second-hand life: solid, useful, and still more relevant than one might expect. An excellent choice for readers of economics, business history, political economy, and serious twentieth-century non-fiction. The Multinationals offers a sharp and intelligent look at one of the defining structures of modern life, and does so with all the brisk authority of a period when paperback books still expected readers to enjoy having their minds properly engaged.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 243 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 501.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 242pp. Black cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends. Text block edges starting to fox. Tape residue from dust jacket protector on free endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket plastic protected (adhered to itself) has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. Explains how multinational corporations came to be and how they work, take decisions and implement policies.

Paperback. Condition: Usato - Molto Buono. In-8 (cm 22,7x14,5), pp. XIII+(1)+242, leg. edit., sovracoperta. I edizione. Lingua inglese. Strappi in sovracoperta, altrimenti buono.

pock. Condition: Fine.

Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi+242 pages including appendix, bibliography and index.

MassMarket. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. Published by Penguin Books, 1973. 12mo. Paperback. Book is very good with previous owner name to first page. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. This book, which won a McKinsey Foundation Book Award in 1971, is a detailed examination of the multinationals and the political implications of their position and influence.His theories and principles, supported with examples from the experience of companies and governments, illuminate a major political and economic problem. Slight browning to pages. Couple of slight creases to cover. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback. Book has slight soiling of cover, light browning of pages, yellowing highlighting throughout text.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Paperback. 'When the first Pelicans were published the intention behind them was to provide the serious general reader with authoritative books on a wide range of intellectual interests. There was at the time no deliberate design of building a library of modern knowledge at a modest cost. Nevertheless, Pelicans have, in fact, become such a library: and one serving, moreover, not only the general reader of serious purpose, but also the great body of students pursuing courses in the Universities and institutions of higher education generally.' (The Penguin Story, 1956). A Pelican Book. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 242 pages; A comprehensive study. Description: xiii, 242 p. ; illus. 23 cm. Subjects: International business enterprises. 3 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Paperback. 'When the first Pelicans were published the intention behind them was to provide the serious general reader with authoritative books on a wide range of intellectual interests. There was at the time no deliberate design of building a library of modern knowledge at a modest cost. Nevertheless, Pelicans have, in fact, become such a library: and one serving, moreover, not only the general reader of serious purpose, but also the great body of students pursuing courses in the Universities and institutions of higher education generally.' (The Penguin Story, 1956). A Pelican Book. . . . .

8°, 287 S., TB., Kleberest auf dem Rückdeckel, ansonsten guter Zustand. 42301.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 242 pages; A comprehensive study. Description: xiii, 242 p. ; illus. 23 cm. Subjects: International business enterprises. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Out of print.

288 pp including index, pages browned, else very good copy in limp wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books 1974. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.