Abstract
The nation-state has a problem in a world where goods, people, and money move easily and efficiently from one country to another, and in which single corporations straddle national boundaries: the power of the state to govern is compromised. If the state takes action which goods, people, or money regard as unfriendly they may leave. They may leave faster and more completely through the international corporation. Nations have fixed jurisdictions or domains, as Richard Cooper calls them. The domain of the corporation may stretch far beyond that of the nation-state.
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For Further Reading
C. P. Kindle-berger, American Business Abroad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969).
Canadian Industry, Foreign Ownership and the Structure of Canadian Industry (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1967).
J.-J. Servan-Schreiber, The American Challenge (New York: Athenaeum, 1968).
Robert Gilpin, France in the Age of the Scientific State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).
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Kindleberger, C.P. (1970). Corporations. In: Power and Money. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15398-5_12
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