ABSTRACT
The empirical results and analysis of chapter four refer to the world’s largest TNCs at a particular point in time: the year 1997. In order to be able to draw conclusions on possible changes over time in the internal network spread of companies’ activities across frontiers, we need to look at indicators of trends. To this end, this chapter presents an empirical analysis for the UK over a long period of time. Two specific types of analyses will be presented here on trends. The first one assesses the location pattern and network spread of the largest UK manufacturing and mining TNCs for selected years over a period of approximately 35 years. The results and analysis are presented in sections 5.2 and 5.3.
