There has been considerable research over the past few decades on the process through which headquarters of multinationals from developed economies exercise control over their network of subsidiaries in foreign countries. However, little research has been conducted on multinationals from...

Ongoing globalization and the opening up of national markets have caused companies worldwide to continuously expand their international operations. However, the nature and direction of the link between increasing degrees of corporate internationalization and corporate performance still remains...

During the last decades, the literature on international business reflects a growing interest in the extension of the corporate networks and the status of the multinational corporations in the global economy. Firstly, in this study, we briefly summarize several aspects regarding to the strategic...

Multinational enterprises play an important role in the transfer of technology into LDCs. The following article examines the various aspects of the transfer of technology and the attitude of multinational enterprises towards such transfers.

The uses and drawbacks of foreign capital and multinational enterprises have been discussed more thoroughly in the past few years also in Mexico. The Third World Trade Conference of 1972 (UNCTAD III), at which President Echeverría came forward with proposals designed to involve foreign...

In its October-issue INTERECONOMICS published an article on Foreign Enterprises in Mexico. The present article deals with the role of multinationals in Colombia, their merits and the complaints about them. Colombia is of particular interest as a member of the Andes Pact.

In the context of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) the developing countries are expressing more and more frequently a wish for stricter control over the multinational enterprises. What should be the features of a Code of Conduct for Multinationals?

While voluntary behavior and social responsibility have so far played a peripheral role in multinational corporations’ global strategies, the author argues that the non-market social responsibility dimension will have to be incorporated systematically in management’s forward planning as a...

Do multinational enterprises act in developing countries as a motive force for progress or do they perpetuate colonialism by different means? The fierce controversy on this question still continues, fuelled not only by basic ideological differences but by dearth of empirical evidence. Prof....

In this paper the authors analyze the existence of profit shifting by companies located in Spain. Using a sample of 1,380 Spanish subsidiaries owned by foreign OECD and EU parent companies from the AMADEUS Database for the period 2005-2014 and a simple tax rate difference as a measure of the...