The subject of this article in an analysis of the globalisation process in economic and social areas. The author describes the main spheres of globalisation such as economic and political integration, the declining role of nation states, cultural homogenisation and the increasing significance of...

Transnational corporations (TNCs) have a central role to play in globalization. At the same time, globalization carries risks for the corporation, and not all of those associated with TNCs may support globalization. While much of the globalization literature suggests that corporations are...

se’s 1937 paper on “The Nature of the Firm” formed the basis of the transaction-cost and internalization theories of transnational enterprises in the 1970s-1990s. These emphasized the problem of firms transferring intangible assets across national borders. Newer theories of the firm adopt...

This paper explores local union organising in the context of corporate mergers which have become increasingly common. Through a multiple case study of 14 cases between 1995 and 2002, we find that unions in eleven cases organise themselves unilaterally, locally and mainly around strategic and...

Transnational corporations are the components of the process of internationalization and globalization of world economy. The transnational corporations, pursuing ceaselessly to increase the economic efficiency of their activities, had seeked for new business oportunities outside the economic...

The process of growing integration of contemporary economic relations, manifested in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium, was the premise of the expansion of transnational corporation and by this means, of the increased investment flows, technology...

Starting from 2008 the development of investment activity worldwide has been earmarked by the world economic crisis, its effect resulting in a major decline of direct foreign investment flows, after an extremely favourable evolution in the past years. The activity of transnational corporations,...