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Evaluate The Role Of Tnc

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There are so many ways to evaluate the role of TNCs, and how they shape and contribute to the economy. Before all this one must understand what globalization is and why it is very important to TNCs. Globalization is simply the integration of culture, trade, natural resources and factors of production between nations. But, economic globalization refers to increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, technology and capital (Shangquan, 2000). The main key players are transnational corporations (TNC) sometimes known as multinational corporations (MNC).TNC’s are firms that have attained the power needed to co-ordinate and operate across the boundaries of many nations. Usually the main purpose of TNCs is to maximize profit and increase their selling market. This is why many TNCs are interested in globalization because without an effective and free trade global economy, many (if not all) will not be able to function and be successful. Some economist feel differently about how TNC’s …show more content…

It is interesting to say that one of the earliest roots of transnational corporations can be traced backed to the major colonizing and imperialist ventures from Western Europe, notably England and Holland (Greer and Singh, 2000). However, the structure of transnational corporations we know today did not really begin until the early 19th century. It is around this time that the development of factories, more capital intensive manufacturing processes; better storage techniques; and faster means of transportation were developed. Also the search of natural resources such as gold, diamond, sliver, petroleum, and even some foodstuffs as well, brought about the need to increase markets and this drove transnational expansion by companies almost exclusively from the United States and a handful of Western European nations (Greer and Singh,

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