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Masataka Fujita - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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small and medium sized Transnational Corporations salient features
Small Business Economics, 1995Co-Authors: Masataka FujitaAbstract:This second half of a series on small and medium-sized Transnational Corporations (TNCs) describes their main features in terms of such variables as the markets and industries in which they operate, ownership, forms of investment, performance and competitive advantages. It also deals with strategies that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) tend to take in their foreign operations.
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Small and medium-sized Transnational Corporations: Salient features
Small Business Economics, 1995Co-Authors: Masataka FujitaAbstract:This second half of a series on small and medium-sized Transnational Corporations (TNCs) describes their main features in terms of such variables as the markets and industries in which they operate, ownership, forms of investment, performance and competitive advantages. It also deals with strategies that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) tend to take in their foreign operations. An appreciable share of small and medium-sized TNCs produces highly-specialized or niche products that give them relatively high market power in those market segments. Their principle source of advantages emanate from proprietary technology, flexible management, organization and market ability, reputation and supplier/customer relations. Small and medium-sized TNCs, unlike their larger counterparts, are more likely to enter developing countries through joint ventures and other collaborative arrangements with local firms. SMEs from some developed countries, mainly Europe, are particularly willing to enter joint ventures.
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small and medium sized Transnational Corporations trends and patterns of foreign direct investment
Small Business Economics, 1995Co-Authors: Masataka FujitaAbstract:This paper provides an analysis of small and medium-sized Transnational Corporations (TNCs). Statistical evidence is provided on trends and patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI) by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). There are virtually no countries for which consistent and systematic FDI data are available by firm size, but data complied by or made available to the author for the UNCTAD Programme on Transnational Corporations allow an analysis of broad characteristics, trends and patterns. FDI by SMEs is more concentrated in developed countries than that by large TNCs. However, small and medium-sized TNCs, especially those from Japan, are increasingly investing in developing countries. Although absolute size of FDI is still small, SMEs account for a large share in terms of the number of investment cases and the number of parent firms. South and East Asia became the primary host region of small and medium-sized TNCs during the 1980s and early 1990s. The industrial distribution of FDI by SMEs in developing countries is quite wide, but concentrated in electrical goods, chemicals, textiles and some services industries. SMEs also engage in non-equity investments.
Felix M Edoho - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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oil Transnational Corporations corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2008Co-Authors: Felix M EdohoAbstract:Corporate social responsibility (CSR) occupies the center stage of the debate on the operations of Transnational Corporations in the developing countries. The quest for profit maximization as the overriding value at the expense of corporate social responsibility puts some Transnational Corporations on a collision path with their Niger Delta host communities, who are demanding environmental sustainability. Militant groups have shut down flow stations and taken oil workers hostage. Unresponsiveness of oil firms to community demands for CSR is heightening the volatility of the Nigerian oil industry. The problem will intensify until oil firms initiate authentic CSR strategies to address the environmental havocs emanating from their operations. At the core of such strategies is recognizing the host communities as bona fide stakeholders and addressing their socioeconomic needs. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
Marc Pilkington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Transnational Corporations in a Monetary Theory of Production
2007Co-Authors: Marc PilkingtonAbstract:This paper aims to put forward an original conceptual framework and a renewed perspective on monetary analysis applied to Transnational Corporations based on some of the views of Bernard Schmitt developed over the last forty years. After reviewing the terminological principles of the theory of money emissions, we show that Bernard Schmitt's theoretical insights have enabled the successful integration of money and output at the conceptual level along the lines of a Keynesian monetary theory of production. We then examine the issue of the definition of the Transnational corporation and its exponential rise in the world economy with regard to the globalisation process. Finally, the inclusion of Transnational Corporations in the theory of money emissions allows us to redefine Transnational production as an additional conceptual level in monetary macroeconomics, with far-reaching implications as far as the monetisation of Transnational production and the subsequent reform of international payments are concerned.
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Transnational Corporations in a Global Monetary Theory of Production - a Macroeconomic Perspective
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007Co-Authors: Marc PilkingtonAbstract:This paper aims to put forward an original conceptual framework and a renewed perspective on monetary analysis applied to Transnational Corporations based on some of the views of Bernard Schmitt developed over the last forty years. After reviewing the terminological principles of the theory of money emissions, we show that Bernard Schmitt's theoretical insights have enabled the successful integration of money and output at the conceptual level along the lines of a Keynesian monetary theory of production. We then examine the issue of the definition of the Transnational corporation and its exponential rise in the world economy with regard to the globalisation process. Finally, the inclusion of Transnational Corporations in the theory of money emissions allows us to redefine Transnational production as an additional conceptual level in monetary macroeconomics, with far-reaching implications as far as the monetisation of Transnational production and the subsequent reform of international payments are concerned.
Peter Robbins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Transnational Corporations and the discourse of water privatization
Journal of International Development, 2003Co-Authors: Peter RobbinsAbstract:Faced with a well-documented fresh water crisis in many parts of the world, international institutions are advocating market-based solutions involving the privatization and commodification of water. The definition of water as a commodity by multilateral organizations in the early 1990s allowed a handful of Transnational Corporations, supported by the World Bank and the IMF, to become centrally involved in management of public water services in poorer countries. The years 2000 to 2003 saw the retreat of TNC investment in water due to national economic crises, social protest, and the difficulties of extracting profit delivering water to indigent consumers. This article examines the shift in discursive strategy of development organizations, and the resulting rise and fall of TNC involvement in water and sanitation provision in the Third World. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Fan Zeng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Advantage, Problems and Countermeasure of the Small and Medium Scaled Transnational Corporations of China
Journal of Shanxi Teachers University, 2003Co-Authors: Fan ZengAbstract:Along with the development of globalization and the integration, many medium and small sized Transnational Corporations have set up in newly rising realm of the businesses and play a importance role in FDI. The small scaled Transnational Corporations of China have the advantage of property, flat-out advantage, comparative advantage and, export advantage. But there are also side by side the problems such as imperfect law system, finacial difficulty, information deficiency, and lack of strategy and system creation etc. Therefore, some valid measures should be adopted to push the health growth of the medium and small sized Transnational Corporations. First, perfect the laws of the oversea investment of enterprise; Second, expand the existing environment of the medium small sized Transnational Corporations; Third, join the international affiliation of the business division and work harmoniously network up; Fourth, build up the cluster organization of small scaled Transnational Corporations ;Fifth ,construct good economic society mechanism for the development of small scaled Transnational Corporations .
