Transnational corporation
Posted: 23 May 2002
Correctly, a large company with shareholders in more than one country. The term is often used more loosely to mean any large, powerful, Western-owned company.Source: The Community Tourism Guide by Mark Mann, published by Earthscan Publications, London, 2001.
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