Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1069:
The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Globalization: An Empirical Overview
Jörn Kleinert
Abstract: The activities of multinational enterprises drive the
economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper lists
some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization.
Therefore, the importance of multinational enterprises in foreign direct
investment and production abroad is examined as well as their contributions
to the international transfer of knowledge and technology and to foreign
trade. It is argued that economic theory must account for multinationalsÂ’
activities in the analysis of the globalization process.
Keywords: Multinational Enterprise, Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, International Technology Transfer, Foreign Trade; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F23; F10; F02; (follow links to similar papers)
30 pages, August 2001
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