Mr Morris and Ms Steel tried to put the multinational corporation itself in the dock.
The multinational corporation argued that there is too tenuous a connection between what allegedly happened in Nigeria and the United States.
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In fact, they invented the multinational corporation with the East India Corporation.
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Ironically, the modern multinational corporation is perhaps the most sophisticated social organizational platform built in human history, with resources and global reach that are unprecedented.
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Probably unknown to Kidd, however, was that his backers were rivals of the powerful East India Company, the ruthless multinational corporation that exported exotic goods from the Indian sub-continent.
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This new friction is sand in the gears of the global multinational corporation.
This friction is sand in the gears of the global multinational corporation.
She gives the example of a multinational corporation faced with the problem of integrating acquisitions across Asia and the Americas into a global strategy.
One could make a convincing argument that in the industrial age, the company (whether multinational corporation, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship) has been the oikos.
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He said the letter showed Mr Taylor, "belongs more in an insane asylum than at the head of a multinational corporation".
We've avoided games with brown envelopes - we knew that we eventually wanted to sell the business to a multinational corporation that would have strict compliance criteria.
Whether you work in a start-up company or a multinational corporation, the choices your organization makes can harm or help those living in poverty.
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It is nearly impossible to really grasp the inner workings of a multinational, diversified corporation for an outsider who spends a couple of days per year on it.
The peculiar result is a largely left-wing movement fighting hard (alongside some corporate billionaires) to create a multinational corporation and a largely conservative movement fighting to stop the advance of capitalism and the private sector.
In 2004 in the stone ages of CSR when paying clients were scarce, I was asked to help the Canadian arm of a multinational dairy and food corporation develop a cause-marketing promotion that would be featured on milk cartons.
Many multinational companies manage to pay substantially below the official corporation tax rates by using tax havens such as Caribbean islands.
This means investment into organizational design on a global scale, establishing brand visibility, building worldwide supply chains and channels of distribution, and all of the rest of the complex set of activities that go into making a successful multinational corporation.
The hacker culture has long been engrained at Facebook, a multinational corporation that famously has roots in a Harvard dorm room.
The central government and the autonomous region may both be happy now with the idea of local people getting some much needed money from a multinational corporation.
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Someday, any one of them could become a multinational corporation like SAP, creating thousands of jobs and supporting the global economy in countless ways.
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Ironically, Kellogg's founded on a philosophy of healthy eating but by now a multinational, multi-product corporation took its place among the targets of the new purists.
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