Dieser Beitrag setzt sich aus einer gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit dem Phänomen "Internationale Konzerne" auseinander. Dabei wird auf die (potentiellen) betriebswirtschaftlichen und volkswirtschaftlichen Vor- und Nachteile sowie Chancen und Risiken dieser Organisationsform...

Grocery retailing was, and is still often considered to be a prevailing domestic economic activity. Trends, however, are changing. In the meantime, an internationalization of grocery retailing, which took off at least 40 years ago allowed for the development of a coexistence of both domestic and...

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...