MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY AND BRAZIL

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LEITE, Érico Lins. Multinational Corporations: economic structure and performance in the world economy and Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: PUC-RJ/Department of Industrial Engineering, 1976. Dissertation in Industrial Engineering. xiv, 197 p., 1 v.

 

 Turning attention to the power concentrated in the hands of multinational corporations, the actual or possible use of that power, its ability to change structures and demand values, to influence the lives of people and in government policies, there will inevitably be a question of what to do about it.

 

Considering further that the aggregate production of all multinational companies is the fifth part of the global gross national product, that sales of its subsidiaries exceed the total exports of all market economies and that these sales grow in proportion of the economy than the nations themselves, appear again, the question of what to do about it.

 

This study proposes to analyze the economic structure of these companies, or their forms of market penetration, its technological and managerial factors that contribute to their decision to invest, the means of production and types of funding, the concept of profit maximization, remittances of profits and dividends, and their influences inflation in developed economies and developing countries.

 

It is proposed also to analyze the development and participation of these companies in the global economy and its consequences.

 

Finally, we discuss the role of multinationals in the Brazilian economy, through a retrospective analysis, and their influences are searched in the external and domestic sectors, it is showing that limits these companies act on the balance of payments and the domestic economic, seeking thereby to show the consequences and find the means available for annulment of the negative effects of absorption and benefits of these companies, for the development of the national economy.
 

 

Érico Lins Leite

Rio de Janeiro, RJ

April 1976