Essays Tagged: "multinational corporations"
Geopolitics, Imperialism & the New World War on Iraq.
There is much talk today about a "new imperialism" being promoted by financial capital and multinational corporations. To understand this we have to go back for the last few decades, in fact ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Essay evaluating use of speculators and arbitrageurs to a treasury.
"Essay evaluating use of speculators and arbitrageurs to a treasury"A multinational corporation is a business firm that operates in more than one country. An example of a ... hese types of firms move a good bit of financial capital around the world.Financial managers in the multinational corporations treasury department have the task of moving capital among nations. Treasu ... rance companies and mutual funds.The management of liquid resources has become a very complex task. Multinational corporations treasuries require a wide range of methods to minimise foreign exchange r ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Genetically engineered foods and how they are being unjustly attacked. (Obviously pro-GE foods.)
peace does not lag behind in their attack: "Trade in GE food and crops is dominated by a handful of multinational corporations. It is widely believed that these are the only beneficiaries of genetical ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Explain what coroprate social responsibility is and its effect on globalisation
Globalisation of the world economy is underway, and various groups, including national governments, multinational corporations and international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, are ... aviour3.Value: Businesses are self motivated regardless of pressure calling for CSR initiativesIn a multinational context the primary drivers for CSR are the need for companies to protect and build th ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Globalization
think that it is important to give a brief explanation of what globalization is. The growth of huge multinational corporations has created a situation where businesses from developed countries have th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Is free trade ever fair trade?
ns of foreign workers, the environmental standards in less developed countries, the high profits of multinational corporations, the inequality in incomes around the world, everything is unfair. If the ... at also free trade and globalization is unfair.However the people of international institutions and multinational corporations who are in favour of free trade and globalisation also use the term fairn ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Genetically modified foods and (some of)the ethical issues involved in this debate
GMF is such a complex issue, and there are many stakeholders involved, these include; Governments, Multinational Corporations, Scientists, Farmers and members of the general populace, all of whom hav ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Managing Cultural Differences
As the world grows smaller because of increasingly efficient global communications and multinational corporations, chance are good that your business will take you outside your home count ... ood that your business will take you outside your home country. The key to a successful multiethnic multinational corporation is communication. Many groups are concerned about communication, business ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Aladdin Knowledge Systems.
ich together accounted for 70% of sales; vertical market software developers accounted for 15%; and multinational corporations, which packaged software with hardware, also accounted for 15%.Most purch ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Ethical difficulties faced by multinational companies in today's business world
1.0 IntroductionMultinational corporations (MNCs) are corporations that "own or control production or service facili ... ch stability, this is the focus of this assignment: first, it will explain the ethical difficulties multinational business encounter while operating in several countries; followed by the general princ ... application of principles to resolve problems in real situations.2.0 Ethical difficulties faced by multinational companies in other countriesAccording to Robert Solomon (Solomon in Hartman, 2005, P.1 ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
A Currency Transaction Tax: A Stabilizing and Emancipating Mechanism
d constant ideological pressure, is massaging globalization. The political elite have invested into multinational corporations, the power to leverage their political will in the global economy. Unfort ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
The Lockheed Incident and Corporate Crime in the Aerospace Industry
inducements. 1 Their practices became public when the Northrup case broke, and the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations began a huge investigation, which resulted in the arrests of the major pl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
International marketing
ective promotional campaign.International MarketingIntroductionOver the past 40 years the number of multinational corporations in the world's fourteen richest countries has gone from 7,000 to 24,000 ( ... contemplate are price and the promotional process.With respect to price, there are several issues a multinational company must face: price escalation, transfer prices, dumping charges, and gray market ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
In what ways has globalisation helped multinational corporations coordinate and control their business functions on a global scale
In what ways has globalisation helped multinational corporations coordinate and control their business functions on a global scale.'Global ... In this era of "globalization", marginalized people are becoming especially angry at the motives of multinational corporations, and corporate-led globalization is being met with increasing protest and ... and global stability.globalization and the mounting number of conflicts occurring in regions where multinational corporations (MNCs) operate have prompted international organizations, the media, huma ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Globalization and the rise of multinational corporations and branding
Globalization and the rise of multinational corporations and brandingA further, crucial aspect of globalization is the nature and ... f world trade (Gray 1999: 62). Significantly, something like a quarter of world trade occurs within multinational corporations (op. cit). This last point is well illustrated by the operations of car m ... rtant not to run away with the idea that the sort of globalization we have been discussing involves multinationals turning, on any large scale, to transnationals:International businesses are still lar ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Globalization: the effect on europe
n going vessels, instant capital flows, all these have made the world more interdependent than ever.Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the w ... ne hand, the Belgian industry as a whole has a low number of patent applications and mainly foreign multinationals introduce patents in this country. On the other hand, the share of innovative firms a ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Corporate Social Responsibilty and its Importance
d hypocritical behaviors. The related stories to this category involve the erosion of confidence in multinational corporations and their brands, and there is wave of changing dynamics among the stakeh ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Importance of MNC'S to the World: Good or Bad Influence.
Multinational corporations are companies with their home base in one country and operations in many ... complex economic factors that would help explain whether it is in their favor to support or oppose multinational corporations or not. Also delegates have to take into account whether that particular ... see if these corporations are causing more problems or are helping to solve problems of the world. Multinational Corporations can manipulate governments and in absence of global governance increasing ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Thw WTO, Free Trade and Globalization.
ns of foreign workers, the environmental standards in less developed countries, the high profits of multinational corporations, the inequality in incomes around the world, everything is unfair. If the ... at also free trade and globalization is unfair.However the people of international institutions and multinational corporations who are in favor of free trade and globalization also use the term fairne ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
Creative vs. Destructive: Is globalization a problem? If so, for whom is it a problem and how is it a problem?
tics of globalization make a number of claims concerning its negative effects. One of these is that multinational corporations operating in third world countries exploit workers by forcing them into " ... marginal productivity, it follows that their compensation will be less. Still, research shows that multinational corporations, on average, pay "wage premiums" ranging anywhere from 30-800% above loca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics