Las empresas transnacionales y las "nuevas" relaciones laborales. Un vehículo para volver a pensar en los límites reglamentarios de la nación-estado.

  1. Köhler, Holm-Detlev
  2. González Begega, Sergio 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Revista:
RIO: Revista Internacional de Organizaciones

ISSN: 1886-4171 2013-570X

Año de publicación: 2010

Título del ejemplar: Revisiting Multinational Corporations in the Twenty First Century

Número: 4

Páginas: 35-52

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.17345/RIO4.35-52 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: RIO: Revista Internacional de Organizaciones

Resumen

Trans-National Companies (TNCs) have been labelled as the driving forces behind the process of internationalization. Since the early 1990s TNCs have been regarded as leading actors in any changes to industrial relations. Their ability to surpass national borders has turned them into a big threat for the stability of the various national agreements that developed after the Second World War. Our intention is to review the relations between the actors before firms decided to internationalize. We examine the various initiatives that have been set in motion at a trans-national level in recent decades to regain some democratic control over the activity of TNCs�, particularly in the European Union. We have developed a conceptual framework which analyses TNCs as political power arenas at the micro and meso level.

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