This has many multinational executives deeply worried.
Google's difficulties and its strong response are indicative of a broader shift in sentiment among multinational executives in China.
She recited a litany of the country's flaws to a room full of multinational executives at a time when the Myanmar government is desperately trying to attract investment.
They view them as a French company".Navigating such foreign sensitivities will be part of multinational executives' job description and a source of income to local lawyers, consultants, fixers and lobbyists for years to come.
The last thing a bunch of bank bosses and multinational executives wants is for the nation-states of Europe to collapse, allowing their assets to be bought up on the cheap.
How many of the government ministers, the multinational executives, the NGO heads, the journalists gathered in Davos this week have read The Magic Mountain, the novel that gave their Swiss resort its renown?
Repeating an argument made by many multinational executives, and dismissed by union officials in the United States, Mr. Barton said that while such a move would provoke fears of job losses elsewhere, his company needed to compete in China and believed that if it manufactured part of its lineup here, there would be a demand for additional products that are not manufactured in China.
Plus, though it is impossible to tell how many of the new offshoring positions are aimed at producing products to sell in overseas markets, as opposed to back in the U.S., based on my interviews with multinational executives over many years, such sales increasingly comprise a high proportion of this activity.
This is the highest-preference category because it is reserved for foreign nationals with the most potential to make a positive impact on American society--extraordinary scientists, artists, and businesspeople; outstanding scientific researchers; and multinational executives and managers.
