This journal takes a fresh look at major legal, sectorial, regional and environmental issues facing corporations operating internationally. Released three times year, it provides in-depth policy-oriented research findings on significant relating to the activities of transnational corporations.

The technique of the processor farm has become very widely used for paral-lelising applications, often being mentioned without reference to any source. The goal of this work has been to put together a complete and rigorous understanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an eeciently farmed application. This paper consists of these two parts. We have ...

This contribution is based on the personal experiences of the author as a typical crop farmer in Holland in 1925-1991, as a researcher at the Dutch Institute of Agricultural Engineering (19541964), and as the Director of that Institute in the period 1964-1983. In essence, the 20th century developments in mechanized agriculture are considered from a historical perspective. The future of farm mec...

On 11 February 1834 the House of Commons ordered that a select committee be appointed to inquire into and consider the laws, regulations, and usages regarding the education and practice of the various branches of the medical profession in the United Kingdom, and on 13 August it ordered the committee's report to be printed. This appeared in three volumes totalling over 800 pages and comprised mo...

This article contributes to knowledge of how one category of business organization, very large, British-based, natural resource extraction corporations, has begun to manage its operations for sustainability. The object of study is a large volume of texts that make representations of the managing-for-sustainability practices of these multinational corporations (MNCs). The macro-level textual ana...

A common understanding in recent literature on the development of multinational corporations (MNCs) and headquarters-subsidiary relations is that some subsidiaries will have, or ought to have, a strategic role in the global organization that reaches beyond their local undertakings. This notion implies that MNC competitive advantage depends on the ability of several corporate units to assimilate...

Multilateral rule-making in the area of investment has a long and somewhat uneasy history. That history has gone hand in hand with the controversy surrounding the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in host countries’ economic and political systems.34 The relationship between trade and investment has a similarly long and troubled pedigree. Suffice it to recall that the investment provisio...

This article highlights current economic conditions in China and analyzes existing obstacles to improving workplace conditions and labor practices. There are significant disincentives to strengthening workplace protections, and downward pressures are currently worsening conditions in a number of economic sectors. However, there are also potential strategies for motivating multinational corporat...