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And there we worked with leading CEOs on African issues, and African companies on turnarounds, making the companies not just the best in Africa but the best globally.

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

See Council decision 2005 296.

One was sponsored by nine TNCs eight SMEs in the non manufacturing sector participated.

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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So we have companies and non profits and charities and all these groups that have employees or volunteers of some sort.

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.

36. This has begun to develop into an illicit business. Fake travel agencies, joint enterprises, commercial establishments and limited liability companies are being set up for this purpose.

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

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Some authors also argue that developing country firms, at least in early stages of their outward expansion, tend to rely heavily on expatriate staff for management and technical positions instead of hiring nationals from host countries, since they have not yet developed the systems that industrialized countries' firms use to transfer management skills to their personnel (Kumar 1982 Lecraw 1977).

35 Business process outsourcing is the leveraging of technology vendors to provide and manage a company's critical and non critical enterprise applications.

35. Expected results and success criteria. The expected results of the enterprise Africa initiative will include 20 African countries assisted in starting new entrepreneurship programmes or strengthening existing ones 5,000 entrepreneurs trained, of which at least 40 per cent will be women 150 enterprise linkages established between African SMEs and foreign companies 90 local trainers certified to implement entrepreneurship workshops 200 entrepreneurship workshops organized.

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 increased presence of TNCs in local markets in developing countries does not always benefit SMEs.

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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Reducing the tax preferences for non corporate business entities (such as partnerships) that pass their income through to their owners individual returns would also broaden the tax base subject to the corporate income tax. Pass through companies now account for more than 80 of net business income (by far the highest share in the developed countries).

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