Making Transnationals Accountable: A Significant Step for Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415068710 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str.

David Bailey;Harte

Opis

Transnational corporations are now of immense significance for most economies. However, by definition they are involved in international production and this poses problems for national governments. The threat of a major company leaving gives it leverage over its host government. This means that even though there is a broad consensus that in some respects the impact of a transnational on an economy can be negative, there is a marked reluctance on the part of governments to try to do anything about it. Although they remain sensitive to the problems posed by transnationals, the authors of Making Transnationals Accountable do not accept that there is nothing that can be done to influence the behaviour of transnationals. The authors advocate a policy of monitoring their activities and use a comparative approach to show that many governments know surprisingly little about the impact of transnationals on their economies. They identify areas which governments might like to know more about. In an attempt to show what their approach might mean in practice, they draw upon the new techniques developed in social accounting to prepare a detailed social and economic account of Glaxo.

Spis treści

1 THE POSSIBILITY OF A STRATEGY 2 BRITAIN’S RECENT ATTITUDE 3 CONTRASTING ATTITUDES ELSEWHERE 4 A MONITORING STRATEGY 5 ISSUES OF CONCERN 6 THE FORM OF ACCOUNT 7 TOWARDS AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACCOUNT: A CASE STUDY 8 DISCUSSION OF THE GLAXO CASE STUDY 9 CO-OPERATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES 10 A SIGNIFICANT STEP FOR BRITAIN

O autorze

David Bailey is Lecturer in Economics in the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy, University of Birmingham Business School. His research interests cover issues in industrial strategy, particularly policy towards transnational corporations. George Harte is Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh. A Chartered Accountant, his main research interests are social auditing, the use of accounting information in ethical and environmental investments and in economic regulation. Roger Sugden is Director of the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy and Senior Lecturer in Industrial Economics at the University of Birmingham Business School. He has published widely in the area of industrial economics, particularly on transnational corporations.