Multinational corporations and their influence in developing countries

This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of multinational corporations and their impacts on developing countries. The primary objective is to assess, how activities of multinational corporations influence developing countries in the economic, environmental, political and social areas. One of the major findings of this that is a fact, that negative influences of MNCs in developing countries are gradually reducing. First part of this thesis is focused on the general characteristics of MNCs including its structure, position in the world economy and formation and evolution over time. Further are analyzed developing countries and the principal issues they encounter. The second part of this thesis will demonstrate the previously discussed issues on three specific case studies - Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria, Nike in Indonesia and Coca-Cola in India