International Taxation and Multinational Activity.(Book Review)

National Tax Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......aggressive in their efforts to attract multinational firms. At the same time, firms have become...literature on international taxation and multinational firms has evolved through three overlapping...understanding of the responsiveness of multinational firms to international tax ...

Multinational Firms, Innovation and Productivity.(Book review)

International Labour Review;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Multinational firms, innovation and productivity...ISBN: 1-84542-198-1. The role of Multinational Firms (MNFs) in innovation and productivity...basic tenet of the theory of multinational firms is that such firms, generally...

Multinational Learning under Asymmetric Information.(research information)

Southern Economic Journal;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......It has long been believed that multinational firms exist in order to exploit economies...paper, we take a different view of multinational firms. Generally, there are political...markets. However, once in a market, multinational firms can exploit their flexibility derived...

The impact of autonomy on information systems planning effectiveness **.

Omega;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......structures and strategies employed by multinational firms to coordinate, control, and integrate...In fact, subsidiary managers of multinational firms have expressed that autonomy from...useful. To study such a relationship, multinational firms offer a logical context with their...

TAX TREATIES AND PROTOCOLS:BYRON DORGAN

Congressional Testimony;  October 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Sixty-seven percent of the foreign multinational firms operating in this country paid not...a growing body of evidence that multinational firms are continuing to use a sophisticated...practice allows enormously profitable multinational firms to shift their profits out of one...

COLOMBIA: KIDNAPPING AS BIG BUSINESS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 30, 1996 ;     596 words ......figure includes premiums paid by multinational firms to insurance companies on behalf...government officials or executives of multinational firms were taken in an effort to attract...industrialists and others. Executives of multinational firms are insured against kidnapping with...

Multinational Firms in the World Economy.(Book review)

Comparative Economic Studies;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Multinational Firms in the World Economy Giorgio Barba Navaretti...decades of research on the economics of multinational firms. A central puzzle economists pose is why multinational firms choose to establish an overseas presence...

Multinational firms and international relocation.(Review)

Advances in Competitiveness Research;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Multinational firms and international relocation...Buckley and Mucchielli's book on multinational firms and international relocation...and general in nature (e.g., multinational firms strategies and the impact of...

Statistics Canada Daily.

Resource News International;  June 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......27, 2000 (RESNEWS) MAJOR RELEASES Multinational firms and the innovation process Foreign-own...and beverages, wood and textiles. Multinational firms are also more often involved in...the innovation system at work in multinational firms and compares it with that of domestic...

Taxing questions. (taxation of multinational companies)

The Economist (US);  May 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...THE 100 biggest multinational firms own about 16% of the world...Studies (IFS) in Britain. With multinational firms it is hard to say where...a system that forces on multinational firms similar prices to those...

PLANS to tax multinational firms

Evening Standard - London;  May 13, 2008 ;     76 words ...PLANS to tax multinational firms more heavily may be watered down after a threatened business exodus from the UK. Firms such as WPP and Brit Insurance said they...

Trade battle on taxing multinational firms.

The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  August 3, 2001 ;     66 words ...The U.S. has lost another battle on taxing multinational firms. Last year, Congress changed the law to allow multinationals to exclude a portion of all income earned abroad after the World Trade...

Earth Summit: Blair promises to crack down on corruption Britain takes...

The Independent - London;  September 1, 2002 ;     531 words ......announce the biggest bid ever to crack down on corruption by multinational firms operating in Third World countries at the Earth summit...here to agree measures to improve the accountability of multinational firms. Development and environmental groups have succeeded in...

Multinational firms get tax break on charitable contributions.(DONATIONS)

The Kiplinger Tax Letter;  August 13, 2004 ;     44 words ...Multinational firms get a tax break on charitable contributions. New IRS regulations allow businesses to allocate all deductible donations to U.S.-sourced income. This lets them claim larger foreign tax credits. The easing applies to donations made in the current tax year and beyond.

Global economy requires a global approach to retirement plans Global...

Employee Benefit News;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......115 pension analysts who deal with multinational firms. Many believe multinationals, and...organization. Historically, most multinational firms have tended to favor a defined benefit...authors write. Because of their size, multinational firms are more able to shoulder the ...