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What is the role of corporations, business and industry associations?

See Council decision 2005 296.

UNCTAD's component included intensive training and business development services for more than 1,000 local companies, the establishment of TNC SME business linkages and the implementation of a business incubator.

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Nevertheless, many corporate responsibility initiatives currently came directly from industry.

60. The minimum standards regarding safety and healthy working conditions are applied in all factories and companies and enterprises, including those of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior.

Armenia has enacted a series of laws relating to the privatization of State enterprises, and 90 per cent of construction enterprises have been transformed into private or joint stock companies.

(3) Enterprises controlled or actually controlled by a securities firm

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Finally, according to Kumar, the terms of technology transfer by developing country firms are generally more favourable to host countries than those of transfer by industrialized countries' firms.

It's another one that lives at the confluence of health and enterprise.

Most of the enterprises that have internationalized are large firms in resource and finance industries.

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Major outward investors include Lukoil, Gazprom, Novoship, Norilsk Nickel, Primorsk Shipping Corporation and the Far East Shipping Company.

Some SMEs follow TNCs as their supplier firms in going abroad.

Investing abroad gives developing country firms access to new resources and has for many enterprises become an important part of their corporate strategy.

The company plans to merge its European operations, including the UK business, with those of ThyssenKrupp, the German conglomerate.

Furthermore, business environments in many developing countries prevent small firms from expanding into medium sized enterprises with more possibilities for linking up with larger firms and TNCs.

Visit of two Cambodian enterprises Concept Garments Ltd., and Garment Apparels Cambodia

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Two or more enterprises create a joint enterprise by setting up a new company.

Singapore SMEs such as Rayco Technologies (a manufacturer of synthetic rubber for the electronics, data storage, automotive and medical industries) and HTL International (a furniture manufacturer) have also grown through internationalization.

Enhancing enterprise productivity and competitiveness (e.g. supply chain management) and Creating new enterprises (e.g. a start up company in software).

Second wave firms include both SMEs and large companies, and both can take advantage of the plethora of interfirm arrangements found in the global economy (UNCTAD 2000 xv).

The first one is called Advanced Bio Extracts Limited.

The challenge for companies was to build up management expertise.

Internationalization benefits larger firms as well as SMEs.

(e) Category E, from corporations, other private legal entities and public sector enterprises

A number are family owned enterprises, including Pacific International Lines (shipping), Hong Leong Asia (industrial) and City Developments Ltd. (property development and hotels).

Due to an alleged failure from ENTEL to comply with the contract terms, the company filed an administrative claim against ENTEL in 1987, which was dismissed in May 1988.

EITI sought regular publication and auditing of payments from the sector (State owned enterprises, local companies and transnational companies).

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

Eurostat data show that the proportion of EU enterprises selling online increases with the size of the company 29 per cent of large enterprises placed orders as compared with 19 per cent of medium sized enterprises and 12 per cent of small enterprises.

Seventy five per cent of Internet sales is B2B, mainly between large firms.

Top Glove Corporation (Malaysia) An internationalizing enterprise

Regional and global players What drives companies to invest abroad?

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