Transnational Corporations, Natural Resources and Conflict

Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

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...

Natural Resources, Social Conflict and Poverty Trap

The paper analyses a model where the fight for the appropriation of rents from natural resources between two groups leads to multiple equilibria. The possibility to be trapped into the low-income equilibrium, characterized by strong social conflict (civil war) and stagnation of income, increases with the weakness of political institutions, the population growth rate, the amount of rents from na...

An Emerging International Framework for Transnational Corporations

The emergence of the transnational corporation (the “TNC”) as a main engine of global economic activity is a phenomenon characteristic of the post-Second World War period. These corporations revolutionized international business patterns, leading to an unprecedented level of transnationalization of the world economy. The importance of foreign investment and TNC activity in the world economy is ...

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, LEARNING AND INNOVATION IMPLICATIONS OF THE TRIMs AGREEMENT

The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which came into effect in 1995, raised serious concerns over its impact on the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in developing economies. Developing countries were particularly concerned over the impact of the removal of local content and foreign exchange regulations on learning and innovat...