摘要:The economic globalisation phenomenon, having evolved very rapidly after the World War II and, especially during the last quarter of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, has determined important mutations in the world of economic units – has accentuated their difference on size, type of activity, form of property, their role and importance, the management policy etc, has set up the domination of commercial economic units in all countries' economies, these economies being stratified during the last decades in a pyramidal structure whose top place is occupied by multinational companies. These international companies have proved to be, over the last decades, the main capital bearer across borders, the most important element in the formation and modification of the different types of capital flows. The main expansion modality of tra nsnational corporations, in different fields of activity, has always been the external capital investment
关键词:multinational companies; foreign direct investments