Transnational Corporations
The spatial transformation of the production structure of transnational corporations: a case study of Volkswagen
... of transnational corporations’ production structure, which is studied through an examination of Volkswagen’s international ...transformed. Corporations use locally accessible advantages on a global ...
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Environmental practices of transnational corporations in Brazil: Cases in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors
... 00001t tif ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN BRAZIL CASES IN THE CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SECTORS Ana Lucia Malheiros Guedes A thesis submitted to the Department of Internati[.] ...
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Global processes and local effects: Food processing transnational corporations in the developing world
... on transnational corporations only just emerged in the 1960s, the existence of the ‘international trading company’ is virtually hundreds o f years ...the transnational corporation, specifically the ...
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The Korean path? Corporate social responsibility and Korean transnational corporations in South Africa
... The history of capitalism shows the age-old contention between capital and society. From the ravages of capital, society has always tried to protect itself through a counter-movement (Polanyi, 1944). Events or social ...
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Strategic Changes in Transnational Corporations as an Adjustment to the Challenges of the 21st Century
... powerful transnational corporations which were classified in the Top 100 TNCs in the UNCTAD’s World Investment Reports (WIR) of ...The corporations were divided into 9 sectors and then the ...
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Foreign direct investment and transnational corporations in Brazil: recent trends and impacts on economic development
... transnational corporations (TNCs). Under a liberalizing regime, these affiliates, mainly in the most capital and technology-intensive sectors, would have stronger incentives to invest in cost reduction and ...
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Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and a framework
... Transnational corporations (TNCs) are incorporated or unincorporated enterprises operating across multiple countries comprising parent enterprises and their for- eign ...are corporations [3] and 37 ...
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Nuremberg Revisited in Burma? An Assessment of the Potential Liability of Transnational Corporations and Their Officials in Burma under International Criminal Law
... Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have become power centred entities in the world today where the economic strengths and the power of some TNCs outweigh that of many ...
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Responsibility and Accountability of States, Transnational Corporations, and Individuals in the Field of Human Rights to Social Development: A Critique
... Gutto, Shadrack (1984) "Responsibility and Accountability of States, Transnational Corporations, and Individuals in the Field of Human Rights to Social Development: A Critique," [r] ...
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The health impacts of extractive industry transnational corporations: a study of Rio Tinto in Australia and Southern Africa
... Civil society will continue to play a role in advocating for necessary change, as will the actions of interventionist governments. Existing voluntary codes should be seen as adjuncts to properly enforced protective ...
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Hegemony, Private Actors, and International Institutions: Transnational Corporations as the agents of transformation of the trade regime from GATT to the WTO
... Negotiations in this area shall aim to establish a multilateral framework of principles and rules for trade in services, including elaboration of possible discipli[r] ...
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Influences of psychological contract breach on oversea employees’ behaviors in Chinese transnational corporations
... What’s the most significant difference of results of our study from others is that psychological contract breach has no significant effect on employees’ exit behavior. In addition, the psychological contract breach has ...
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Transfer of Technology, Emerging International Responsibility of Transnational Corporations: Possible Impact of the Uruguay Round at the GATT
... While these states are happy to create, and in many cases would robustly insist on creating international rules and machinery for the protection of foreign investme[r] ...
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(Transnational) Corporations and Human Rights: an exploration into the accomodation of capital in international human rights law.
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An Innovative Approach to Stakeholder Theory: application in spanish transnational corporations
... in transnational firms, as their size and the diversity of territories and communities within which they operate will lead to a multiplicity of non-aligned ...a transnational firm, its multiple ...
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Corporate social responsibility and the role of transnational corporations in global justice
... for corporations than it does for NGOs at the ...against corporations anyway, and it is unclear how this affects the will for and/or effectiveness of ...
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The degree of monopoly and transnational corporations : some theoretical and empirical issues
... Weltwirtschaftliches foreign intra-industry 1981a, A note on University investment, direct of in InternaPapers Discussion Reading Studies Investment tional and Business Number 52.. State[r] ...
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Ownership structure and new product development in transnational corporations in China
... Although a large number of studies have been carried out on the behaviour of TNCs, relatively little is known about the relationship between organizational and ownership arrangements of [r] ...
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Financial networks and the globalization of transnational corporations: the case of educational services
... of transnational corpor- ations (TNCs) by responding to the neglect of firm finance within economic geography more generally (Pollard, 2003; Pike and Pollard, 2010) and studies of corporate globalization in ...
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Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: a case study on McDonald’s Australia
... Positive impacts include TNC investment in host countries which can contribute to national economic growth and development through innovation, economies of scale, productivity gains, technology transfer, infra- structure ...
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