Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the author's research and teaching on transnational corporations and global capitalism over the last 40 years. Design/methodology/approach – A chronological account of the changing nature of TNCs and their impacts, and the evolution of...

The present paper deals with the issue of current account deficit, trying to offer a series of answers to the debates regarding its recent evolution in Romania. In the former part it is presented the level of current account deficit and the evolution of its main components within the period...

Purpose – Capital, through its practices and narratives of global competition, is able to play unions in different locations off against one another through the construction and exploitation of difference. Trade unions and their activists have responded through formal institutional responses...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the general trend of globalization, the role of transnational corporations in the process of globalization and China's integration in the global economy through the linkage of trade and foreign direct investment. China's governmental national...

The FDI stock of Russia amounted to USD 15 billion at the beginning of 2002. Recorded outward direct investment covers only a small part of the total capital outflow from Russia abroad. Capital flight represents the core of Russian capital outside Russia. During the period 1994-2001 recorded...

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the disparity between the huge global influence and reach of transnational corporations, on the one hand, and the lack of international legal infrastructure for regulating TNC activity, on the other. Existing avenues for holding TNCs accountable for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and analyse the World Investment Report 2010 in the context of all the previous World Investment Reports ( WIR s) and their historical background. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a historical analysis, the structural features...

Today’s discussions on globalization are more alive and controversial. As is acknowledged as a fact, globalization is studied not only as an economic category but as a process, system, phenomenon. Currently, on international level, a variety of companies operate. From all of these, the...