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

Three cement companies, all subsidiaries of large multinational companies, were fined a total of EUR 28,500,000 for their participation in a cement cartel.

Although it is typical to think of the benefits that can be brought by large multinational corporations, small and medium sized companies can also offer important opportunities in transborder investing.

The current trend towards huge companies dominating production of software in some sectors is being mirrored in the rise of the large multinational information system support houses.

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This factor is more significant for large SINTNCs that aim at the global market.

After the crisis, Korean enterprises rapidly built up their OFDI, led by large TNCs such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

It provides comprehensive data and information on FDI (both flows and stock), operations of TNCs, basic financial data on the largest TNCs, the legal framework in which investment takes place and selected bibliographical information about FDI and TNCs in 36 individual economies.

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The United States and United Kingdom were the two largest destinations for OFDI by both Indian TNCs and SMEs (annex table 6).

In the short run, the implementation of EMS by SMEs will depend largely on demands by large organisations, e.g. customers in overseas markets or large firms in developing countries, in particular TNC subsidiaries imposing requirements on local suppliers.

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.

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Activities of transnational corporations.

The degree of transnationality varies among these 12 SINTNCs.

The majority of successful large cocoa processing operations in cocoa producing countries is in the hands of the transnationals at least on a joint venture basis.

(c) The question of transnational corporations

(c) The question of transnational corporations.

Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out. Many of them are successfully tapping into buoyant demand in emerging economies, generating significant free cash flow.

Additionally, OFDI by SMEs has a greater tendency to go to neighbouring countries to diversify risk and access new markets, compared with OFDI by large enterprises or TNCs.

The top 12 TNCs from Singapore include seven government linked companies (GLCs).

Proceedings of the Special Round Table on TNCs, SMEs and Development, UNCTAD X, Bangkok, 15 February.

Multinationals are protecting human rights.

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The speaker then referred to the issue of international corporations, which had been granted so much independence, while sovereign African countries could not act independently.

To be sure, sociopathic corporations have populated books and films for more than a century. But corporate villains, typically multinational companies, have never been so ubiquitous as today.

Owing to costs in terms of financial, physical and human resources, trade is increasingly being dominated either by large multinational companies or by well established individual export companies.

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A significant proportion of OFDI from Singapore, however, originates from Singapore based affiliates of foreign TNCs.

There is also growing FDI in R D (from a low level) by developing country TNCs, e.g. from the Republic of Korea, China and India.

Other than China, Malaysia experienced a high concentration of SINTNC subsidiaries 119 of the 204 SINTNCs established 273 subsidiaries in Malaysia.

For transnational corporations (TNCs) and large companies, this related to export markets whereas SMEs were more specifically concerned with domestic market share, including increased market opportunities as suppliers to TNCs.

Today internationalization appears to be driven much more directly by firm to firm contracting in a global setting, and it frequently involves SMEs initially being drawn into global business through contractual linkages with larger TNCs.

Seven of the top 50 TNCs from the South are South African (WIR04).

Plants have also been established by major transnational companies in cocoa processing.

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Access to these services in many of the developing and least developed countries is, however, limited to a few large corporations parastatals multinationals that have the necessary trade volumes and credit ratings to satisfy the requirements of the international institutions.

None of the major petroleum and rice importers paid corporate tax for the current year.

The volume of outsourcing should increase by 30 to 40 per cent each year over the next five years, reflecting the fact that, after large transnational companies (TNCs), small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are likely to begin outsourcing.

Corporate social responsibility for development by TNCs in Africa, which entailed maximizing TNCs for the economic and social development of host States, was imperative.

They have traditionally been dominated by TNCs.

TNC SME Linkages for Development Issues, Experiences, Best Practices.

Liberalization and technological changes had greatly increased the role of transnational corporations (TNCs).