Transnational Corporation as a New Form of Power in the Contemporary Postmodern Society

URBANOVÁ, Martina, Daniela ETTALEB and Markéta KLUSOŇOVÁ. Transnational Corporation as a New Form of Power in the Contemporary Postmodern Society. In The Business and Social Science Research Conference. 2014.

Basic information

• Original name: Transnational Corporation as a New Form of Power in the Contemporary Postmodern Society
• Authors: URBANOVÁ, Martina, Daniela ETTALEB and Markéta KLUSOŇOVÁ.
• Edition: The Business and Social Science Research Conference, 2014.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50500 5.5 Law
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Law
• Keywords in English: Globalization; transnational corporations; financial capital; poverty; capitalism; social control

Abstract

The authors test the hypothesis of the eminent Czech social scientist Jan Keller (2002), who has presented an idea that we will witness reverse convergence theory. Keller has claimed that in the following development, not the most valuable and most perspective aspects of the former coexisting systems, i.e. socialism and capitalism, will interconnect, but rather the most problematic and least desired aspects of them. The authors tested the hypothesis on national corporations. The authors analyzed national corporations and drew attention to the accelerating concentration of the world wealth in the hands of a relatively small part of population. Financial capital is being more and more centralized, and there is disproportion between the high consumption on the one side and growing poverty of broader groups of society on the other. There are continuously emerging more and more sophisticated forms of surveillance and supervision.

Links

• MUNI/A/0829/2013, interní kód MU: Name: Teoreticko-empirická východiska zkoumání právního vědomí v mezinárodním kontextu (Acronym: Právní vědomí v ČR)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A