Transnationals, International Organization and Deindustrialization
研究了跨国公司、国际国家机器(如欧共体)与去工业化之间的联系,指出国际国家机器是国际生产和劳动分工中的制度工具,其政策反映了消费者、跨国公司和国家官员等各方利益的复杂互动。
We examine the link between transnational corporations (TNCs), international state apparatuses and deindustrialization. We suggest that international state apparatuses, such as the EC, are institutional devices, complementary to firms (including TNCs) and states in international production and the division of labour. Their policies are the result of, or express, a complex interaction of (the interrelationships between) often conflicting interests of, for example, consumers, TNCs and state functionaries. The complex articulation of the relationships involved and the associated often non-predetermined nature of emergent policies, allows for the identification of applicable, e.g. consensus-based, policies. Internat ionalization of production and the TNC is linked with the emergence of internat ional state apparatuses, such as the EC, but also the 'new international division of labour, deindustrialization and 'relative decline'. Being a home base to TNCs does not immunize a country from deindustrialization. All these support the concept that EC policies which support forces competitive to TNCs could be of benefit to Europe.