multinational corporation
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Presentation By:
Deepika Luthra Diwakar SainiSagar Batra
“A corporation that controls production facilities in more than one country, such facilities having been acquired through the process of foreign direct investment. Firms that participate in international business, however large they may be solely by
exporting or by licensing technology are not multinational enterprises.”
DEFINITION:
SOME MULTINATIONAL COMAPANIES
DEFINITIONAL DIMENSIONS
By Size: The term MNC implies bigness. Bigness also has
number of factors like market value, sales, profits, return on
equity
By Structure: Structural requirement include the
number of countries in which the firm does business and the citizenship of corporate owners and top managers.
By Behaviour: This is an abstract as a measure of
multinationalisation and it refers mostly to the behavioural
characteristics of top management.
By Performance: Performance depends on
such characteristics as earnings, sales and assets.
FACTS AND FIGUERSpublished by the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
There is a total of 889,416 MNCs around the world.
The 100 largest MNCs sales combined amounted to nearly $8.5
trillion.
There is a total of 3,057 multinational companies (MNCs) in India:
815 based in the country and 2,242 foreign affiliates.
From 2004 to 2009, the number of Indian-based MNCs decreased
nearly 50%, while the number of foreign affiliates increased 90%.
SOME IMPORTANT TERMS
Parent enterprises
Subsidiary
Associate Foreign affiliates
Transnational corporations
CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT
ORGANISATIONAL MODELSORGANISATIONAL
CHARACTERISTIC
S
MULTINATIONAL GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONAL
Configuration of
assets and
capabilities
Decentralised and
nationally self -
sufficient
Centralised and
globally scaled
Sources of core
competencies
centralised, other
decentralised
Dispersed
,independent and
specialised.
roles of overseas
operation
Sensing and
exploiting local
opportunities
Implementing parent
company strategies.
Adapting and
leveraging parent
company strategies
differentiate
contributions by
national units to
integrated world
wide operation
Development and
diffusion of
knowledge
Knowledge
developed and
retained within each
unit
Knowledge
developed and
retained at the
centre
Knowledge
developed at the
centre and
transferred to
overseas units
Knowledge
developed jointly
and shared
worldwide
BENEFITS TO THE HOST COUNTRY
Increase the investment level and thereby income and
employment
Transfer technology mainly in developing countries
Also kindle a managerial revolution through professional and
highly sophisticated management techniques
MNCs enable to increase their export and decrease the import
Equalise the cost of factors of production around the world
Provide an efficient means of integrating national economies
MNCs make a contribution to inventions and innovations
through research and development systems
MNCs may encourage and assist domestic supplier
MNCs help increase competition and break domestic
MNCs AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
According to peter drucker MNCs and international trade are the two
side of the same coin
The period of fifties and sixties was the most rapid growth of
multinational trade
Foreign affiliates of MNCs account for about one-third of the world
exports
More than 40% of total exports of China is done by MNCs
Apart from trade in commodities other transaction also take place
extensively:
The granting of loans
Licensing of technologies
Provision of services
MNCs technology is designed for world wide profit maximisation, not the development needs of poor countries
Through there power and flexibility, MNCs can evade or undermine national economic autonomy and control
MNCs may destroy competition and acquire monopoly powers
On political involvement, MNCs have been accused on occasion of:
Supporting repressive regimes
Paying protection money to terrorist groups
Paying bribes to secure political influence
Not respecting human rights
Destabilizing national government of which they do not approve
PROBLEMS FACED BY HOST COUNTRY
MNCs retard growth of employment in the home country
Transfer pricing enables MNCs to avoid taxes by manipulating
prices on intra-company transactions
MNCs have been accused of the following environmental
problems:
Polluting the environment
Not paying compensation for the environmental damages
Causing harmful changes in the local living conditions
Paying little regard to the risks of accidents causing major
environmental catastrophes
Cont.
Cont.
The MNCs criticized for their business strategies and
practices in the host countries for:
Undermine local cultures and traditions
Change the consumption habits for their benefits
Promote conspicuous consumption
Dump harmful products in developing countries etc.
PERSPECTIVES
Increasing emphasis on market forces
Growing role for the private sector in nearly all developing countries
Rapidly changing technologies that are transforming the nature of
organisation
The rise of services to constitute the largest single sector in the
world economy
The globalisation of firms and industries
Regional economic integration
CODE OF CONDUCT
MNCs must respect the national sovereignty of host countries
and observe their domestic laws, regulations and
administrative practices
Adhere to host nations economic goals, development
objections and sociocultural values
Respect human rights
Not interfere in internal political affairs or in intergovernmental
relations
Not engage in corrupt practices
MULTINATIONALS IN INDIA
There was very little foreign investment has taken place in
INDIA. Due to Government conditions which were
unacceptable to them. For Ex. Coca Cola and IBM, even left
India in late 1970’s.
The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA), 1973 was not
in the favour of Multinational's.
An often heard criticism is that MNC’s drain the foreign
exchange of the developing countries
Cont.
India followed policies that discriminate against export
production and in favour of production for the local market
since 1980s
Due to economic liberalisation in 1991, many multinationals in
different line of business have entered in Indian market and
multinational prior in India have expanded their business.
TOP 10 MNCs IN INDIA Microsoft
IBM
PepsiCo
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.
Nestle
CocaCola
Procter & Gamble
Nokia
Sony Corporation
Citigroup Inc
Round:- 1
A corporation that controls ________ facilities in more than
one country
a) Trade
b) farming
c) developing
d) Production
QUESTIONS: 1
QUESTION: 2
Different dimensions used to define the MNCs are size, structure,
behaviour and __________.
a) Emotions
b) Investment
c) Performance
d) employment
QUESTION: 3
MNCs must respect ______ rights
a) Animals
b) politician
c) Human
d) Bribers
QUESTION: 4
There is a total of MNCs _______ around the world.
a) 889,416
b) 889,616
c) 666,666
d) 989,516
Round:- 2
QUESTION: 5
According to ________ ________ MNCs and international
trade are the two side of the same coin
a) Peter parker
b) Peter subhramanyam swami
c) Peter dranken
d) Peter drucker
QUESTION: 6
Due to economic _____________ in 1991, many
multinationals in different line of business have entered in
Indian market
a) Demonization
b) Development
c) Liability
d) Liberalisation
QUESTION: 7
The Foreign ________ Regulation Act, 1973 was not in the
favour of Multinational's.
a) Investment
b) Exchange
c) Import Export
d) Policies
Final Round
QUESTION: 8
Transnational corporation are enterprises comprising
________ _________ and there _________ affiliates.
a) Foreign enterprises and their parent
b) Native enterprises and their host
c) Associate enterprises and their subsidiary
d) Parent enterprises and their foreign
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