TY - JOUR AU - Katz, Jan Hack AB - BOOK REVIEWS 161 The Multinational SpatialOrganisation of Corporations Ian M. Clarke By New St. Martin's 1985 York, Press, Reviewed JanHack Katz by New York University While Clarke's to the of industrial and merge theory attempt geography behavior is his lack of with the manage- organizational laudable, familiarity ment literature hinders his of useful theoretical development insights. Still, this book has merit because of the into geographer's insights global corp- orate resource transfer. Clarke writes about Repeatedly, "spatial" effects, structures and He errs in to that term. organizations. neglecting explain One that it refers to the movement of gathers, though, resources-capital, Resources not people, technology-through global space. may actually be added from a new to the spot existing organ- move, they may simply the as a ization. amoebic this By painting organization shifting entity, view allows readers to think of multinational and contraction expansion in a cohesive manner. relatively The of this work is: what are structure's im- explicit question corporate for the movement of firms their national boundaries? beyond plications he criticizes those on structure as Correctly, writing organizational (such J. D. T. Burns and G. M. for the issue of Thompson, Stalker) ignoring geo- he out that those TI - The Spatial Organisation of Multinational Corporations JF - Journal of International Business Studies DO - 10.1057/jibs.1986.20 DA - 1986-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-spatial-organisation-of-multinational-corporations-bMEDMV8trv SP - 161 EP - 163 VL - 17 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -