Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe: Racing to the Bottom?

The Cooperative Roles of Chinese Unions in Multinational Corporations

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are facing various labor legislations and labor institutions in different countries. This paper investigates the functions and effectiveness of Chinese unions in MNCs. Survey evidences suggest that Chinese unions play cooperative roles in helping MNCs to harmonize industrial relations (internal functions), and to build trust and long run coordination with the C...

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Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

Multinational Corporations: Corporate Social

The aim of this paper is to identify contribution from MNCs from Australia in Thailand in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The key focus is given to the analysis of CSR activities from MNCs in an effort to fight poverty in Thailand. Secondary data was collected from two MNCs in Thailand. The results of this study identify two key themes: (1) climate change and poverty, and (2)...

Racing to the Bottom at Different Speeds

Scholars often assert that intra-state competition increases the ability of firms to extract tax abatements by playing local governments off of one another. We test this proposition using data on the more than 5,000 tax abatement agreements signed in Ohio between 1983 and 2004 under its enterprise zone program. We articulate a political economic model of tax abatement generosity that models the...