Transnational Corporations in the Global World Economic Environment

Economic Theories of Transnational Corporations, Environment and Development

The point of departure of this essay is the notable lack of theory application to the study of TNCs, environment and development. In order to compensate for this problem, it is proposed that economic theories of international production could provide a suitable starting point for the generation of hypotheses regarding the environmental implications of FDI in LDCs. The main advantage of these th...

Globalization, Transnational Corporations and the Future of Global Governance

Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

Transnational corporations, socio-economic change and recurrent crisis

This Special Issue of critical perspectives on international businesses addresses a question of fundamental concern to both scholars of international business and citizens around the world: what has changed in the composition and functioning of national economies and the international economic system in order to plunge the global economy into a lengthy and, to date, irresolvable crisis? Early e...

Innovation Processes in Transnational Corporations

If innovation is considered as a process, then the differentiation of the innovation process into two phases creates several benefits. These two phases are, firstly, a pre-project phase fostering creativity and effectiveness, and a secondly a discipline-focused phase to ensure efficiency of implementation. This differentiation enables transnational companies to replicate and scale innovation ef...