scholarly journals TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: STATUS AND PROBLEMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
T. Voronkova ◽  
К. Khivrenko
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations

scholarly journals Transnational Corporations as a Source of Career and Biographical Stabilisation: The Case of Polish Corporate Employees

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Marcin Gońda
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Transnational Corporation ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability

This paper discusses contemporary transformations in the way work is organised and the consequences for the stability of careers and biographies. It debates the widely held belief that organised and predictable life-course paths (including professional careers) have ceased to exist and that work itself has lost its stabilising quality. Biographical data collected among Polish employees of transnational corporations within the project “Poles in the World of Late Capitalism” proves that even though transnational corporations are widely criticised for propelling neoliberal tendencies in the global economy, they provide a means of protecting their employees against today’s uncertainty and occupational risk. Three empirical cases are presented to show how work in a transnational corporation may contribute to achieving and maintaining stability for persons who have had troublesome experiences of working in other sectors of the labour market.

Transnational Protest and the Corporate Planet - the Case of Mitsubishi Corporation vs. The Rainforest Action Network

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Action Network

AbstractThis paper argues that the emergence of a global economy has led to new lines of conflict between transnational corporations (TNCs) and civil society actors. While the efficiency of state regulation seems to have diminished, transnational protest groups have been able to challenge TNCs and enforce certain standards upon them. The paper discusses the conflict between the Mitsubishi Corporation and rainforest protection groups in order to identify the mechanisms behind this and similar conflicts.

scholarly journals Polskie firmy na tle zagranicznych korporacji w dobie globalizacji

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 170-180
Author(s):  
Stanisław Sala
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Dynamic Development ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Qualitative Changes

This article presents the role and the importance of Polish Transnational Corporations (TC) to global economy. Dynamic development of TC can be observed since the beginning of 70s of the 20thcentury. Nowadays TC have huge economic power which generates large profits. Many times incomes of TC are bigger than the value of GDP of less developed countries. Activity of TC is very controversial. On the one hand, present TC should be treated as an answer to qualitative changes which have taken place mainly in the sphere of telecommunication and means of transport, on the other hand, they are the motive power of these changes.Polish corporations are very small in comparison with the foreign ones. We have noticed a great disproportion of worth in comparison with corporations which are on the list of the global 1000 or 2000 biggest-worth corporations on the rising market. If Polish corporations want to catch up with the foreign ones, they must considerably increase the speed of their development.

scholarly journals Modern Economic Space in Polish Cities as a Symptom of Globalisation

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wdowicka
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Business People ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Modern Economic

Modern Economic Space in Polish Cities as a Symptom of Globalisation Globalisation primarily embraces cities, which turn into major nodes of the global economic network. It is here that huge transnational corporations locate their operations, an intensive exchange of information takes place, and the largest global flows are registered. In seeking to adjust their economic and spatial structure to the requirements of the competitive global economy, cities undertake large-scale infrastructural investments and develop new forms of organisation of their economic space, including scientific-technological parks, high-quality spaces offering services to producers and business people, and modern office districts where the headquarters of global corporations, international economic organisations and financial institutions are concentrated. The aim of the paper is to analyse the resources of modern economic space in Polish cities in the age of dynamic globalisation, in particular such elements of this space as high-quality office stock and technological parks.

scholarly journals Transnational Corporations and Business Networks in ASEAN: Building Partnership in the Asia– Pacific Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Anna H. Jankowiak
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
The Impact

There are many factors that promote the close, mutual cooperation within the group of ASEAN countries. These states are linked by the economic, social and political ties. One of the elements that can contribute to the deepening of the integration between the ASEAN countries are the transnational corporations and the business networks they create. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are an economic power in today’s global economy. TNCs are important players and their role is manifested in capital flows, technology transfer and merchandise trade. The importance of corporations as global players is growing due to their economic potential, and also because they make foreign direct investment and create business networks, thereby, contribute to the flow of the state-of-the-art technologies from the developed to the developing countries. They play a significant role in shaping the global economy along with the individual national economies, both those developed ones, from which TNCs mainly originate, and the developing economies, to which they relocate their subsidiaries or chosen elements of the value chain. The aim of this paper is to examine the activities of the transnational corporations in the ASEAN countries and the impact these corporations have on building partnerships between the countries. The analysis will also cover corporations originating from the ASEAN countries, which through creation of business networks, actively affect ASEAN relations with the Asia-Pacific region.

Neoliberalization and Transnational Capitalism in the American Mold

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEL VAN ELTEREN
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Governance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
Predominant Form ◽  
Bath Water

This contribution focusses on the close intertwinement of Americanization, neoliberalism, and corporate globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century, on the eve of the global economic recession of 2008 and after. Many students of current globalization tend to reject the whole notion of Americanization. It is argued that these theorists have thrown the proverbial baby out with the bath water, namely an interest in America's strong influence in many domains globally. Yet it is also recognized that one has to move beyond a state-centrist approach in order to adequately grasp the significantly increased influence of transnational corporations over the past few decades. Therefore this article explores the major ways in which transnational corporations – in relation to US-dominated international governance – spread capitalist modernity worldwide. An attempt is made to explain how US business leaders and affiliated political power-holders managed to set the agenda of much of the global economy and why many of their foreign counterparts adopted similar neoliberal policies. The article concludes with a brief overview of major challenges and countermovements to the predominant form of capitalist globalization.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Besnik Pula
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Export Specialization ◽  
State Socialist

The reigning image of state socialist economies as they existed during the second half of the twentieth century is that of fully closed, autarchic systems. Today, by a number of measures, including dependence on foreign direct investment (FDI), export specialization, and the dominance of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the local economy, the ex-socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe are among the most globalized in the world. Was the socialist past merely an obstacle these countries needed to overcome to join the global economy? Or, did socialism instead lay the groundwork for the region’s present-day globalization? ...

Investment and Transnational Corporations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Crystal
Keyword(s):  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The World ◽  
Answering Questions

Transnational corporations (TNCs) are networks of related enterprises, composed of a parent in one country and subsidiaries or affiliates in other countries. They play a central role in the global economy, and have recently come into focus in international political economy (IPE) scholarship. Early studies on TNCs and foreign direct investment (FDI) took place in the late 1960s and the 1970s. FDIs are a type of cross-border investment in which a resident in one economy establishes a lasting interest in an enterprise in another economy, in order to ensure a significant degree of influence by the direct investor in the management of the direct investment enterprise. Both TNCs and FDIs were controversial in the field, as tensions arose between TNCs and host states and people began to question whether or not FDIs were beneficial for developing countries. By the 1980s and 1990s, the world fell into the grip of financial crisis, and the study of TNCs fell largely into neglect, only to witness a revival during the 2000s. Since then, while the field of IPE has returned to focus its research on FDI, the current literature has taken a different track from the earlier work, and the results have made important contributions to answering questions about the effects of FDI and about what affects firm–state bargaining or the governance of TNCs in the twenty-first century. Too much of the recent literature, however, still focuses narrowly on explaining investment flows.

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