ABSTRACT
The impacts of multinational and, latterly, global corporations manifest themselves at the behavioural and global scales in a number of ways:
the form which investment takes - its degree of transience, its unequal, asymmetric competition with domestic enterprise and its relations with the operation of both home and host governments, for example;
the spatial form which this investment assumes, bringing with it uneven regional consequences;
the transformation of national and regional labour markets through such processes as migration, deskilling, dualism and the reorientation of managerial loyalties away from the state and towards the company;
cultural realignment towards mass consumption and the accompanying modification of family life and personal goals and motivations, and even the health problems caused by modification of diet.
