Introduction: Multinational Corporations and Governments

A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC) organizes production of goods and services in more than one country, involving the transfer of assets or intermediate products within the investing enterprise and without any change in ownership.¹ Foreign direct investment (FDI) by an MNC is the purchase of physical...

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Hauptverfasser:	Biglaiser, Glen, Staats, Joseph, Pinto, Pablo, Jensen, Nathan, Pinto, Santiago, Li, Quan, Malesky, Edmund
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Zusammenfassung:	A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC) organizes production of goods and services in more than one country, involving the transfer of assets or intermediate products within the investing enterprise and without any change in ownership.¹ Foreign direct investment (FDI) by an MNC is the purchase of physical assets or a significant amount of the ownership (stock) of a company in another country to gain a measure of management control. International production through MNCs and FDI has been increasing in volume and expanding in scope. It is widely viewed as one of the most salient aspects of globalization. For the first four decades