Grensoverschrijdende fusies en overnames in het nieuwe europese financigle landschap. Nabeschouwingen bij een Italiaans onderzoeksproject

J.-P. Abraham

Review of Business and Economic Literature, 2002, vol. XLVII, issue 3, 355-372

Abstract: Multinational corporations are increasingly seen as excessively big and powerful, and as having dramatically increased in size and power. This perception has led to the view that the big corporations are threatening democratic institutions of the nation-states and that they pervert the cultural and social fabric of countries. In this paper we analyse the size of large corporations and the recent trends in this size. Using value-added data (instead of sales) we find that multinationals are surprisingly small compared to the GDP of many nation-states. In addition, if anything, the size of multinationals relative to the size of nations has tended to decline somewhat during the last 20 years. Finally, we argue that there is little evidence that the economic and political power of multinationals has increased in the last few decades.

Date: 2002-03
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