Talk:Multinational corporation/Archive 1

where are these examples from?
included (what for?):

Apple Computer     (Revenue  $ 13.93 billion USD)

Fonterra           (Revenue  $  6.80  billion USD)

Google             (Revenue  $  3.19 billion USD and multinational??)

Kyocera

Nike               (Revenue  $ 13.74 billion USD)

Nintendo           (Revenue  $  4.64 billion USD)

Nortel Networks    (Revenue  $  9.82 billion USD)

Parmalat           (both bankrupt and never a truly big player)

Schlumberger       (Revenue  $ 17.46 billion USD)

Yahoo!             (Revenue  $  3.57 billion USD !!)

not included (why not?):

Allianz            (Revenue  $128.00 billion USD)

Altria Group       (Revenue  $ 89.61 billion USD)

AXA                (Revenue  $ 72.00 billion USD)

Boeing             (Revenue  $ 52.45 billion USD)

Chevron Corporation (Revenue $155.30 billion USD) !!

Citigroup          (Revenue  $108.28 billion USD)

ConocoPhillips     (Revenue  $136.90 billion USD) !!

DaimlerChrysler    (Revenue  $19.32 billion USD) !!

ING Group          (Revenue  $ 92.80 billion USD)

Samsung            (Revenue  $116.80 billion USD)

Siemens AG         (Revenue  $ 75.17 billion USD)

Total              (Revenue  $159.00 billion USD) !!

Volkswagen AG      (Revenue  $156.00 billion USD) !!

... and quite a few other more worthy candidates

Sebastian Leibnitz &#124; &#91;&#91;User talk:Name&#124;Talk]] 23:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll change the lot if there is no complain... Sebastian Leibnitz &#124; &#91;&#91;User talk:Name&#124;Talk]] 22:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes please. I was going to ask the same question. Airbus ($34 b) can be used as example of multinational corporation from the beginning. Pavel Vozenilek 22:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Demarcation between Multinational
i think this sucks 86.138.113.59|86.138.113.59]] (talk) 07:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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The difference = there isn't any major difference as such. It is a term which has evolved over time - multinational corporation being the first title and transnational being the more modern name. This is because corporations now operate transnationally abroad - not just nationally or regionally as competition has become more fierce/widepsread. So, as the term suggests, as the multinational companies have advanced into markets overseas and worldwide, they have become transnational - rather than just multinational or regional. Any standard IPE (International Political Economy) textbook will outline this for you.

(NightShade101 (talk)) —Preceding comment was added at 22:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

multinationals in sectors of economis
hi,i would like to know what attracts multinational corporations to specific sectors of the economy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.21.112.18 (talk) 11:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

multinational companies are a big drawback for devoleping contries like INDIA
'''india one of a prestigious devoleping nation' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.68.95.59 (talk) 11:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Unsubstantiated
''Avoiding transport cost is not really an incentive because transportation costs, at least on a large scale, are generally relatively cheap relative to the price of the product. Only heavy or large products may need to be produced in the market they are intended to sell in, products such as building materials.'' Ah, no. Try moving liquid oxygen or any other industrial gas across long distances and you'll find that the transport costs are prohibitive. Many chemicals -- very light -- are in the same category. (The comment also isn't sourced.)

''Many MNCs are large in relation to the national income of the countries in which they are located. This means that it is not as easy for the host governments to enforce national laws on MNCs.'' How does a government's failure to enforce its own laws end up in an "ethical issues" section of an article on MNCs? Wouldn't this be better placed in an article on corruption or poor governance?

''In a highly competitive world, companies seek to reduce their costs as much as possible. The prospect of a foreign company setting up in a country where labour is cheap is attractive both for the company and the host country's government.'' Labor is, in very, very many cases, an insignificant portion of total production costs.

In general, I find this article to be bias against MNCs. DOR (HK) (talk) 08:47, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems
This article was listed for evaluation at Copyright problems/2009 April 26. The section on "Market imperfections" infringes on the 2000 book The nature of the transnational firm with a combination of close paraphrase and direct duplication, both comprehensive non-literal similarity and fragmented literal similarity. For example, compare the text in our article: "If there are unique assets of value overseas, why not sell or rent these assets to local entrepreneurs, who could then combine them with local factors of production at lower costs than those experienced by foreign direct investors?" with the source: "If a firm has some unique assets of value overseas, why not sell or rent those assets to local entrepreneurs, who could then combine them with local factors of production at lower costs than those experienced by foreign direct investors?" (emphasis added) The duplication continues, with the next sentence (for example) copied verbatim. While the source is cited, we cannot duplicate text from other sources or closely paraphrase them to comply with our copyright policy (see also the copyright FAQ). Duplicated text used under fair use must comply with our non-free content guidelines, which sets out those limited circumstances under which text may be duplicated verbatim and requires that duplicated text be properly noted with quotation marks. Given the extensiveness of duplication here, the entire section will need to be removed or revised, unless permission to use it can be verified. It has been blanked to allow time to address these concerns. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional discussion of this matter, including another example of duplicated text, is in user talk. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:49, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree there are issues
Was just passing through but agree about the biased nature of this article. The article in Answers.com, although different in nature (it comprises this wiki article and others), surpasses the wiki article. Answers.com's history of MNCs in its "U.S. Foreign Policy Encyclopedia" component is short but good.

http://www.answers.com/topic/multinational-corporation

DonL (talk) 05:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

multinational vs. international
Obviously this page has issues, but as per countless debates on Microsoft international and multinational are apparently totally seperate things. Multinational means has most of it's offices in one country while also serving others where international means an equal allocation across the globe. At least that's what an edit war 5-year years ago on that article and others resulted in. It was a long time ago though, comments? RN 16:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Note the target and the various capitalized versions are far and away the most common on the inbound links. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:51, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Multi-National Corporation → — Per the discussion above. I arrived at this page, was surprised to see the page titled this way, and then noticed that it was moved without consensus. It should be moved back to the previous title. Gary King ( talk  ·  scripts )  01:22, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * As per my above comment (as RN), I strongly agree with this request. Ryan Norton 11:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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sections 3-8
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Multinational vs Transnational?
I have to verify this - but I have been lead to beleive that a Multinational company is what is described on the page with a centrailzed head quarters. A transnational company has no "head office" and move whatever base of operations it has fluidly between its national offices.

If this ends up being correct should I create a new article and disable the redirects? Or am I better to just make a note of it within the page itself?

Thanks! - Graniterock


 * I would suggest to make a note on "the page itself" and then redirect transnational company to this page. --PBS27 15:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


 * graniterock - make a new page and interlink the two somewhere; by the way, i believe you are right!213.6.36.71 11:33, 6 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Does a software development company come under MNC? Although, there is no physical things produced, but they happen to run their operations across two or more countries. Especially in case of Arabic Countries, at times it is easier to have a small office set up over there to keep operations costs low, while transfer the development job to India or China or wherever. Npindia 00:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * A multinational and a transnational are definitely not the same thing. A multinational operates in two or more countries simultaneously but is based in (has a headquarters in) just one country.  Walmart and Coca Cola are multinationals.  A transnational has significant operations in more than one country simultaneously and decentralizes decision-making to the local countries.  They don't try to run their foreign ops from home; nationals are typically hired to run things in each country.  Nestle and Frito-Lay are transnationals.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marlief (talk • contribs) 15:38, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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I agree, multinationals and transnationals differ. Multinationals may operate as subsets of our transnational organization. I say this as Mathematics, consistent with logic and the biosphere, oriented as world citizen, updating the definitions of if and money as a sub-activity of my masters degree thesis in Mathematics at Simon Fraser University, thereby demonstrating local = global. Multinational entities, of which I also am one, are subsets of Mathematics + logic + the biosphere updating if + money and reconciling monopoly + ubiquity.

JenniferProkhorov (talk) 17:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Page move
I note this article has just been moved (to Multi National Corporation (MNC)) without any prior discussion. Does anyone agree with this? I certianly don't. For a start having an acronym embbeded in the title like that is an unlikely search term and goes against MOS:NAME. secondly "multi" is a prefix, not a word in its own right. Against that we have a simple assertion that "Multi National Corporation (MNC)" (not even "Multi National Corporation") is the most commonly used term. I was tempted to simply revert straight way but I'll give people a chance to comment first. Crispmuncher (talk) 13:32, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It's a very odd move (with an edit summary of "widely recognized name"). Multinational is in most dictionaries now (with an origin from multi-national): the google hits for the double-word version are a mix of "Multi-National" and "Multi National," so it would seem to be that multi national is the older way of spelling it. RN 14:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Sounds like an inside joke, humourous and welcome.

JenniferProkhorov (talk) 17:32, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Was Dutch East India Company the first multinational?
I believe this article (http://www.bartleby.com/65/fu/Fugger.html) proves otherwise.

The Dutch were the first.Not the British.

The answer is neither, and such arguments get nowhere. Like most inventions defined retrospectively, this one developed in stages - a decent article should reflect the complexity and simply show the development of the idea of a multinational company and not state which was 'first'. The British EIC was founded two years earlier than the VOC. If there is some technical/legalistic reason some academic has defined the terms so that the VOC qualified by the the British EIC didn't (i.e., the stock, this should be explained - but that doesn't square with the definition given here, so the article's claim is suspect. Harsimaja (talk) 18:27, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I would argue that the Templars were the first multinational in terms of business. They capitalized on their immense wealth and holdings to more than one country (and government)... way before the Dutch imagined or the British established the "East India Trading Company". Rarelibra 15:03, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the whole part about the Knight's Templar should just be removed, until a conclusion can be made. It doesn't seem very encyclopedic to say "Some believe A, while others believe B", without ever reaching a valid conclusion.  Make up your mind, and if a different conclusion is discovered to be correct, change the article to reflect it. Sandwiches99 02:39, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Don't assume that because you've thought of something earlier, it's the earliest - there are many candidates out there. If you're going to redefines terms so far as to include the Templars (a bit sensationalist and rather indefensible...), there are a great many more candidates even in the ancient world, many of them - gasp - not Western. For stricter definitions, don't forget the (nec. later) Hanseatic League and Muscovy Company. Harsimaja (talk) 18:27, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I think the article should not try to state who was first, just as an article on the car/computer/television etc. should not try to establish who was first - not because historians are clueless, but because when things develop in stages the idea of being 'first' overall can be ill-defined (giving patriots of various countries lots to bitch about). Hence the oft-used phrase 'the first modern...' - which is even more iffy. When a conclusion has to be subjective, it is NOT encyclopedic to reach a 'valid' conclusion, whatever that might be here. Harsimaja (talk) 18:37, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * This Dutch/English east indies company stuff should be removed. There were many trading companies that precede them - in England alone, there were the Merchant Staplers, the Merchant Adventurers, the Muscovy Company, the Levant Company, etc.


 * To clarify on the "stock" issue: In the early 1600s, the English EIC only raised enough capital for one journey at a time; after that expedition returned, profits were distributed, ships sold off and investors liquidated; the EIC would then have to start afresh, raise new capital for the next expedition, and so on. The VOC started off 1602 with a joint stock for multiple expeditions, initially 10 years-worth but then stretched that out permanently.  The EIC only introduced "joint stock", i.e. multiple-journey capital (four-years worth), in 1613.  On that front, the VOC certainly pips EIC as the "first" in the East Indies.
 * If anyone wants to insist that joint stock is not a criteria, than I can list over a half-dozen Dutch companies (voorcompagnie) that were formed in 1594-1600 to trade in the east indies, each of which was formed before the EIC, and each of which raised far, far more capital and sent more expeditions to the East Indies than the EIC did (that is, until they were all force-mergered into the VOC in 1602).
 * Contrariy, if anyone wants to insist joint stock is a criteria, then the Muscovy Company (1555) and Levant company (1581) had joint stock well before any of the East Indies companies.

In short, trying to make historical claims for the "first" MNC is a ridiculous endeavor. Either include a history of all overseas trading companies - which means starting with the Italians & Germans, which precede the Dutch & English - or just delete that paragraph. Walrasiad (talk) 10:39, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

This article has multiple issues
Including: highly POV, copyright infringement (but see below), essay-like, lack of citations

The main part of the article may be disguised advertising for the book cited, or may simply be done by a fan of the author. How this made it above start class, I don't know.

Any takers for major rewrite?Sfcardwell (talk) 04:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It looks like this article hasn't been revised much since the "essay" and "POV" tags were added more than 18 months ago. I am not in a position right now to do a major rewrite, but I can begin the process by removing and rewording the more troubling sections.  From looking at the article as it exists now, there is a large amount of material that probably needs to go.  I don't want to claim ownership of this article, but I would like to strip it back to a basic set of facts from which a properly written article could be extended.  - Authalic 21:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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"The article is biased. The positive view of MNEs has found them productive and technologically advanced. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2004) show that more productive firms export, while the most productive ones invest abroad. At the theoretical level, Dunning (1981), Markusen (e.g., 1995) and Helpman (1984) refer to firm-specific advantages that parent firms share with their subsidiaries and/or plants. Hymer (1960) originally categorized as owner- or firm-specific advantages access to raw materials, economies of scale, intangible assets, superior management etc. In Dunning’s eclectic paradigm, i.e., the so-called OLI theory (ownership-specific, location-specific and internalization advantages), firm-specific advantages refer particularly to assets such as knowledge capital, which can be easily replicated and transferred within the firm across countries, without incurring high transaction costs or knowledge leakages. Yet, FDI and trade are important vehicles of international technology diffusion (Keller 2004).

There is evidence showing that the higher productivity is related to the multinational character of the firms, rather than their foreign-ownership (see e.g., Martin and Criscuolo 2002, Criscuolo and Martin 2009; Griffith et al. 2002 for the UK; Doms and Jensen 1998 for the US; Globerman 1979 for Canada). Original firm specific advantages that allowed firms to go global in the first place may have been further enhanced by their exposure to fierce international competition, ability to source technologies globally, organize their operations efficiently on the global scale, etc. Moreover, FDI is linked to high-tech industries (Griffith et al. 2002, Blomström and Kokko 2003)

Blomström, Magnus and Kokko, Ari, (2003): Human Capital and Inward FDI, CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers, No 3762, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=387900

Criscuolo, Chiara and Ralf Martin (2009): Multinationals and U.S. Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 91, No. 2, Pages 263-281.

Doms, Mark E. and J. Bradford Jensen (1998): Comparing Wages, Skills, and Productivity between Domestically and Foreign-Owned Manufacturing Establishments in the United States, NBER Chapters, in: Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting, pages 235-258. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Dunning, J.H. (1981): International Production and the Multinational Enterprise. George Allen and Unwin.

Globerman, Steven (1979): Foreign Direct Investment and `Spillover' Efficiency Benefits in Canadian Manufacturing Industries, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 12(1), pages 42-56, February.

Griffith, Rachel, Helen Simpson and Stephen Redding (2002): Productivity convergence and foreign ownership at the establishment level, IFS Working Papers W02/22, Institute for Fiscal Studies. http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications

Helpman, E., (1984): A simple theory of international trade with multinational corporations. Journal of Political Economy, 92:451477.

Helpman, E., M. Melitz and S. Yeaple (2004): Export versus FDI with Heterogenous Firms, American Economic Review, Vol.94, No.1, pp. 300-316. Dunning (1981),

Hymer, S. H. (1960): “The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment”. PhD Dissertation. Published posthumously. The MIT Press, 1976. Cambridge, Mass. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/27375

Keller, Wolfgang 2004. "International Technology Diffusion," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 42(3), pages 752-782, September.

Markusen, J. R. (1995): The boundaries of multinational enterprise and the theory of international trade. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(2): 169-186.

Martin, Ralf & Chiara Criscuolo, (2002): A note on ownership and productivity in UK businesses, United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2002 6, Stata Users Group."

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

We believe Dr. Berghall has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


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Never remove an article from Wikipedia for copyright reasons without first checking backwards copy. Backwards copy is now very popular on the web. The copyright date on the external article is 2016, but the material was already present in Wikipedia in April 2015. For example in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=655920741

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=643106253 from Jan 2015 overlaps the external article in six sentences: "A transnational corporation (TNC) differs from a traditional MNC in that it does not identify itself with one national home. While traditional MNCs are national companies with foreign subsidiaries,[10] TNCs spread out their operations in many countries sustaining high levels of local responsiveness.[11] An example of a TNC is Nestlé who employ senior executives from many countries and try to make decisions from a global perspective rather than from one centralized headquarters.[12] Another example of a Transnational Corporation is the Royal Dutch Shell corporation whose headquarters may be in The Hague, Netherlands but its registered office and main executive body where the decisions are made is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Anti-corporate advocates criticize multinational corporations for entering countries that have low human rights or environmental standards.[13] The aggressive use of tax avoidance schemes allows multinational corporations to gain competitive advantages over small and medium-sized enterprises.[14] Organizations such as the Tax Justice Network criticize governments for allowing multinational organizations to escape tax since less money can be spent for public services."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=612323384 from Jun 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=590079921 from Jan 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=558002420 from Jun 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=530832435 from Jan 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=495504748 fron Jun 2012 overlap the external article in four sentences: "A transnational corporation (TNC) differs from a traditional MNC in that it does not identify itself with one national home. While traditional MNCs are national companies with foreign subsidiaries,[9] TNCs spread out their operations in many countries sustaining high levels of local responsiveness.[10] An example of a TNC is Nestlé who employ senior executives from many countries and try to make decisions from a global perspective rather than from one centralized headquarters. Anti-corporate advocates criticize multinational corporations for entering countries that have low human rights or environmental standards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=483267801 from Mar 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=473094788 from Jan 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=436091968 from Jun 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multinational_corporation&oldid=409323828 from Jan 2011 overlap the external article in three sentences: "A Transnational Corporation (TNC) differs from a traditional MNC in that it does not identify itself with one national home. Whilst traditional MNCs are national companies with foreign subsidiaries,[5] TNCs spread out their operations in many countries sustaining high levels of local responsiveness.[6] An example of a TNC is Nestlé who employ senior executives from many countries and try to make decisions from a global perspective rather than from one centralised headquarters."Mollwollfumble (talk) 19:11, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

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Stateless or transnational corporation
, following up on the moving of content (and the requested move ) from here to Transnational corporation, I added a bit about transnational corporations. I think this term is mostly a synonym for transnational corporations in actual practice, and I cited an article which notes that. We could perhaps have an article discussing "transnationality" in practice which might be named "Transnationality of corporations" or something, but I think it's confusing to have another article named "Transational corporation". II | (t - c) 20:20, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi I agree they are very closely related, and in practice almost identical, and having a multinational corporation article and a separate transnational corporation article could be confusing.  As for transnationality, the transnational corporation article started with that title before I did a large copyedit on it a couple days ago. I think there was an attempt to discuss transnationality, but the article was so strongly focused on transnational corporations that I changed the name and pulled in more content from the multinational corporation article.  Perhaps I should have gone the other way and merged everything in the transnationality article into the multinational corporation article and done away with the transnationality article entirely.  If you and other editors agree that's a better course of action, then I have no reservations about that being the final outcome instead.  Orville1974  (talk) 21:11, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

too heavy on East India company
too much text and esp visuals devoted to one company (the Dutch East India co.) which was the first but lost its importance long ago. trimming details is called for or moving to the company's own page. Rjensen (talk) 22:44, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 25 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: Not moved - no further engagement or reply to concerns from nom. (non-admin closure) Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 20:43, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Multinational corporation → Multinational company – Multiple sights of this page with regards to its history suggests that this title is right for this page. As controversial as it seems, the title of the page begins with "multinational company" with contrasting senses with "multinational corporation". Don't know what the rest of you guys think, but I think this title is right for this article. Intrisit (talk) 11:01, 25 November 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 16:59, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
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 * Oppose. See WP:COMMONNAME. Anyone who actually reads business news on a daily basis (WSJ, Bloomberg, Barron's, etc.) already knows that multinational corporation is the more common term.  Google Ngram Viewer confirms that multinational corporation is the more common term in the corpus of published English works. --Coolcaesar (talk) 23:28, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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