Translation is only part of the challenge for multinational companies. Words, slogans and symbols can take on entirely different meanings across cultures.
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Global supply chains lead to companies capturing most of the value, while suppliers – and especially workers – get a much smaller share.
It has been suggested that Tesla’s dispute with a Swedish union could damage wellbeing and prosperity in the country.
Leaders and managers must understand the complexity of armed conflicts to make responsible and ethical choices
Listen to the second part of The 15% solution – two episodes from The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring plans to reform the global tax system.
Listen to the first part of The 15% solution – two episodes from The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring plans to reform the global tax system.
The risk of taking sides for corporations.
Nationalist sentiment at home or abroad can influence business priorities, altering decisions on global expansion. New research shows just how much it can effect businesses.
Corporations that benefit from poverty should have a legal duty to mitigate the harm of poverty from which they benefit.
Australia has backed a move to ensure multinational corporations at least pay some tax in the countries in which they operate, but has baulked at going all the way.
As detailed in a June 2023 event in Grenoble, France, business schools hold partial responsibility for the longstanding behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs) in indigenous territories.
Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
Rather than ending the race to bottom from international profit shifting, the Australian government’s proposed 15% tax rate is likely to entrench it. Here’s why.
The public bears the suffering and costs of the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, and the rapidly accelerating climate emergency.
New research shows that companies are shifting record amounts of their profits to tax havens, despite a global effort to crack down on the practice.
The UK windfall tax has barely made a dent in surging energy profits this year.
Multinational enterprises are facing a high rate of repatriate turnover from employees returning back home from international assignments.
A transcript of an episode of The Conversation Weekly published on October 6, 2022.
The global external shocks require a total rethink, repurpose and reform of the process of globalisation.
African countries, rich in resources, easily fall prey to aggressive tax planning and tax evasion facilitated by offshore companies.
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia
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Producer, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Researcher, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
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Professeur en économie et stratégie internationales - Professor of international economics and strategy, EM Normandie
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Assistant Professor in Accountancy and Taxation, University College Dublin
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Visiting Lecturer - Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Taxation, University of Lagos
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Professor, Department of International Business, Marketing, Strategy & Law, MacEwan University
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Deputy Dean of Research, RMIT University
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation