AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brown…

By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure

Some managers seemed sympathetic to the study, although they encouraged me to recast it as a technical issue, such as the "problem of executive succession in multinationals."

The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.