University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Management Papers Wharton Faculty Research 2001 “Our Resistance Is as Global as Your Oppression”: Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance Stephen J. Kobrin University of Pennsyvania Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/mgmt_papers Part of the Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons Recommended Citation Kobrin, S. J. (2001). “Our Resistance Is as Global as Your Oppression”: Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance. International Studies Association, Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/mgmt_papers/108 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/mgmt_papers/108 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “Our Resistance Is as Global as Your Oppression”: Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance Disciplines Business Administration, Management, and Operations This conference paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/mgmt_papers/108 “OUR RESISTANCE IS AS GLOBAL AS YOUR OPPRESSION” Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance Stephen J. Kobrin Department of Management The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
[email protected] April, 2001 This paper was presented at the 2001 meeting of the International Studies Association in Chicago in February. Lorraine Eden, Virginia Haufler, John Stopford and Robert Wolfe provided helpful comments on the previous version. “Yet, the basic adjustments demanded by the globalization trend cannot take place without a struggle. Too many interests in the nation states see the economic risks and costs of the adjustments involved, even if justified in the longer term, as unfairly distributed and deeply threatening.