These would cover binding corporate rules within multinationals, model clauses between companies or requests to people for their consent.
Further complicating matters is the fact that the multinationals' business models are based on practices established in the markets of the developed world, where the game is won slowly by finding cost savings and making product improvements that capture single percentage points of market share over time.
This study integrates transaction cost economics and institutional theory to propose a contingency model of multinational enterprises' design of ownership control.
Sun Yan, a Beijing-based consultant for Boston Consulting Group, says that this practice began as a way for domestic manufacturers of new products to break into stores, but the stores have extended the model to multinational companies.
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In many ways, however, it is the exact model used by multinational corporations that depend on poorly paid workers in developing countries to staff their highly profitable operations.
The United States handed over command of an area south-central Iraq to Poland's military today, the incomplete transfer serving as a somewhat flawed model for the multinational cooperation the United States hopes to amplify.
A look like that might be pushing things at Gucci, a multinational whose challenge is to "model" markets — that is, standardize taste and expectation among luxury goods consumers in markets both established and new.
We establish a model with heterogeneous multinational firms and show that (a) the LCR policy affects the firms' modes of entry to a new market, with FDI being more likely to be adopted when there are lower LCRs, and (b) when facing the same LCR, a less efficient firm is more likely than a more efficient firm to adopt the FDI mode.
There are more than 100 million of these kids, mostly living in poverty, tens of millions in extreme poverty, due partly to our indifference, but mainly because of the cruel business model of the multinational companies in those industries that we support daily with our customer loyalty and purchasing power.
