Pojęcie przedsiębiorstwa międzynarodowego
Streszczenie
The article is an attempt to systematize various views on fundamental characteristics of the multinational enterprise. Among different definitions and terms,
there can be distinguished three groups of view on the fundamental characteristics
of the multinational enterprise:
1) views identifying the concept of multinational enterprises with the parent
enterprise and its foreign subsidiaries (including both capitalist and socialist ones);
2) views treating the multinational enterprise as a joint enterprise i.e. such
whose capital, management, personnel belong to enterprise s of different countries!
3) views combining both above approaches.
The article characterizes the above views and presents definitions illustrating
these views. There has also been presented the multinational en te rp rise from the
legal viewpoint, which is due to the fact that in the course of establishing such
enterprises and during their functioning arise numerous problems of legal nature.
Moreover, the legal point of view differs considerably from the economic one, as
ro t all multinational en terprises in th e economic sense are multinational from the
legal point of view. On the other hand, each multinational enterprise in the sense
of its nationality or In the sense of its personal status is a multinational enterprise in the economic sense.