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The Multinational Enterprise as Symbol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Raymond Vemon
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The world we are obliged to inhabit, it sometimes seems, is being managed by a deity with an exceedingly wry sense of humor. This is the century in Which national governments have taken on the novel and difficult task of actively trying to promote the welfare of ordinary people. It is also the century in which technological forces have been pushing the individual states together and sharply reducing their autonomy. The multinational enterprise epitomizes the conflict. Created in part as a result of the technological forces, responding to the new opportunities those forces have generated, the multinational enterprise is widely seen as threatening the autonomy of the nation-state.

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Worldview , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 1977 , pp. 37 - 43
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1977

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