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NATIONALISM VS. THE MULTINATIONALS By IAN H. BELL, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, TRI Since the end of World War II, there has been an expansion of international business and international services on a scale that was never contemplated. During this period, new political states have come into being in all corners of the globe. The result has often been a clash between two opposed ideologies, since the new states have tended to grow up in former colonial empires and to follow an ideology not always consistent with the capitalism of America and Europe. Yet, the international companies have found it necessary to do business in these new coun-tries, while the countries themselves have found it helpful to receive the investment and technological know-how that international business can provide. Arising from this situation, a key question faces political and business leaders today: what should be the relation-ship between the political state and the ever-increasing number of international business firms? It might be interesting to retrace the historical position of the political state and the international corporation. The latter is not a recent concept. Many major international companies had grown to maturity in the 1920's and 1930's. However, in most cases, they were operating either within colonial empires or within "Western spheres of influence," and there were rarely any obvious clashes between their interests and those of the governments of the countries 1 1
Object Description
Title |
Nationalism vs. the multinationals |
Author |
Bell, Ian H. |
Subject |
Nationalism International business enterprises |
Abstract | Photograph not included in Web version |
Citation |
Tempo, Vol. 21, no. 1 (1975), p. 11-13 |
Date-Issued | 1975 |
Source | Originally published by: Touche Ross, & Co. |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2010 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | Tempo_1975_Spring-p11-13e |