Multinational Companies

Archive Report

Giantism in international business

Groing Opposition to Multinational Corporation

An American company with head offices in Chicago manufactures a consumer item in its plant just outside of Paris. Financing for the plant was arranged in Zurich, insurance in London. Components of the finished product are shipped to France from subsidiaries in San Francisco and Bonn. After assembly by French workers, the item is sold in Amsterdam, Islamabad, Tel Aviv and even Chicago. Such are the imaginary but typical operations of a multinational company. MNCs, as they are called, might employ labor, pay taxes, search for capital, engage in export trade and sell products in scores of countries. Many of these corporate octopi are larger, in terms of economic assets, than the countries they operate in. The ...

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