Purpose – This paper aims to utilise a typological matrix as the basis to categorise various corporate-society interventions. It aims to argue that an instrumental version of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is hegemonic in both the theoretical and normative domains of mainstream...

Recent research highlights the role that multinational trading companies may play in impeding price transmission. In markets characterised by imperfect competition, an estimate of the partial elasticity of demand may be of limited practical value if no account is taken of the reaction of...

One of the explanations of developments favorable to companies or for their failures throughout the world lies in including the organization of activities outside the country of origin, the management practiced by headquarters, the parent company and its subsidiaries in the countries they were...

In this paper we analyse the process of the accelerated growth of the investments by the transnational corporations since the 70s, most of which (almost 90%) are mergers and cross-border purchases. These strategies predominately orientate towards the market, together with the benefit of salary...

The paper analyses knowledge flow transfers in transnational corporations, also studies the different form of knowledge to be transferred. As multinationals establish subsidiaries in new locations, they will transfer know-how from the parent to the local operation. In established multinationals...

TNCs are not new actors of the stage of international economical picture. Even since XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, the private firms have been constituting the link between the producers and the consumers from different countries of the world. They have become a main actor in the international...