<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Premise: globalization represents both the fertile background and the accountable foreground that accompanies the evolution of TNCs/MNEs, within a self-enforcing spiral of co-evolution which gratifies the winners and discards the losers.Argument: UNCTAD’s Top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs gathers together, since 1993, some of the most prominent winners of the above mentioned processes, making this instrument one of the best indicators and benchmarks in terms of both globalization and transnationalization – when analyzed at a given moment in time (for a particular year), and even more relevant when analyzed dynamically and by comparison.Context: two major global shifts have occurred during the last decade or so: the global (financial and) economic crisis and its repercussions, and the rise of the emerging economies and of their TNCs/MNEs.Aim: to depict the dynamics registered within the world’s top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs – in order to identify significant insights on how the world of TNCs/MNEs has evolved and its architecture (and inner composition) has changed – by fueling the two shifts mentioned above while internalizing their outcomes.</abstract>

Premise: globalization represents both the fertile background and the accountable foreground that accompanies the evolution of TNCs/MNEs, within a self-enforcing spiral of co-evolution which gratifies the winners and discards the losers.Argument: UNCTAD’s Top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs gathers together, since 1993, some of the most prominent winners of the above mentioned processes, making this instrument one of the best indicators and benchmarks in terms of both globalization and transnationalization – when analyzed at a given moment in time (for a particular year), and even more relevant when analyzed dynamically and by comparison.Context: two major global shifts have occurred during the last decade or so: the global (financial and) economic crisis and its repercussions, and the rise of the emerging economies and of their TNCs/MNEs.Aim: to depict the dynamics registered within the world’s top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs – in order to identify significant insights on how the world of TNCs/MNEs has evolved and its architecture (and inner composition) has changed – by fueling the two shifts mentioned above while internalizing their outcomes.

Some Insights on the Changing Architecture of the World’s Top 100 Multinationals

Studies in Business and Economics

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Premise: globalization represents both the fertile background and the accountable foreground that accompanies the evolution of TNCs/MNEs, within a...

Some Insights on the Changing Architecture of the World’s Top 100 Multinationals

Publié en ligne: 23 janv. 2017

Pages: 90 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0038

Mots clés
Transnational Corporations (TNCs) / Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs, transnationality dynamics

© 2016 Ogrean Claudia et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Some Insights on the Changing Architecture of the World’s Top 100 Multinationals

Publié en ligne: 23 janv. 2017

Pages: 90 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0038

Mots clésTransnational Corporations (TNCs) / Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs, transnationality dynamics

© 2016 Ogrean Claudia et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Transnational Corporations (TNCs) / Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs, transnationality dynamics