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This paper examines how the processes of coordinating a multinational audit impacts, and is effected by, the
structuration of globalization. Using a detailed field study of an audit involving multiple locations, we argue that the
coordination of work in multinational firms links the local and the global in a dialectical manner. In particular, we
analyze the relationship between the global and the local through an examination of two key coordinating mechanisms
used by audit firms–
doc_819570405.pdf
This paper examines how the processes of coordinating a multinational audit impacts, and is effected by, the
structuration of globalization. Using a detailed field study of an audit involving multiple locations, we argue that the
coordination of work in multinational firms links the local and the global in a dialectical manner. In particular, we
analyze the relationship between the global and the local through an examination of two key coordinating mechanisms
used by audit firms–
doc_819570405.pdf