This paper explores the complex relationship transnational corporations entertain vis-à-vis human rights in the countries in which they develop their activities. Transnational corporations are crucial to the economic growth and therefore also to the development of less industrialized countries....

Multinational companies (MNCs) are influenced by their home country institutions. But how does the interaction between home country and host region institutions affect human development in countries with significant regional disparities? To address this question, we collected a unique dataset of...

In this study, we use a cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model and panel data for the period 1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing countries. The results suggest that technology diffusion...