Free Accounting Dissertations - This Stems From The Fact That Relative Costs, Revenues, And Tax
This stems from the fact that relative costs, revenues, and tax considerations play a major important role in MNC’s decision for FDI in a country, therefore, they are more important than the other reasons mentioned in the latter.
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APPENDIX
Table 1: The largest triad-based MNEs, 1999
Ranking foreign assets
MNE
Country
Foreign assets
(in millions of US $)
Total assets
(in millions of US $)
Foreign assets as a % of total assets
1
General Electric
US
141.1
405.2
34.8
2
ExxonMobel Corporation
US
99.4
144.5
68.8
3
Royal Dutch/Shell Group
EU
68.7
113.9
60.







