Profit and Power / Ronen Palan

Public ISBD Titre : Profit and Power : Arbitrage in the Era of the Multinational Corporation Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ronen Palan, Auteur Editeur : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2026 Importance : 270 p Note générale : 04.01 PAL Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Entreprises multinationales Tags : Capitalisme  Pouvoir  Taxes  Fraude fiscale Index. décimale : 04.01 Entreprises - Généralités Résumé : Why are Multinational Corporations so powerful and elites so wealthy while still operating within nation-state rules? Profit and Power examines how firms engage in legal transgression, operating at the edges of legality to maximize profits. Offering a practical analysis of jurisdictional arbitrage, Ronen Palan exposes the hidden mechanisms behind corporate power in globalization and reveals how the rule-based transgressor elite emerged through strategic use of MNC structures. Tracing the origins to the late nineteenth century, Palan focuses on centrally-coordinated multi-corporate enterprises (CCMCEs) – networks of legally independent yet interconnected firms. He explores the gap between the legal entity and the corporate group, a loophole long exploited to arbitrage national regulations, including taxation. This is the first systematic study of jurisdictional arbitrage and its impact on states and society. By analysing corporate decision-making within fragmented regulatory environments, it unveils the systemic role of legal ambiguity in shaping modern capitalism and corporate dominance. Profit and Power : Arbitrage in the Era of the Multinational Corporation [texte imprimé] / Ronen Palan, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press, 2026 . - 270 p. 04.01 PAL Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Entreprises multinationales Tags : Capitalisme  Pouvoir  Taxes  Fraude fiscale Index. décimale : 04.01 Entreprises - Généralités Résumé : Why are Multinational Corporations so powerful and elites so wealthy while still operating within nation-state rules? Profit and Power examines how firms engage in legal transgression, operating at the edges of legality to maximize profits. Offering a practical analysis of jurisdictional arbitrage, Ronen Palan exposes the hidden mechanisms behind corporate power in globalization and reveals how the rule-based transgressor elite emerged through strategic use of MNC structures. Tracing the origins to the late nineteenth century, Palan focuses on centrally-coordinated multi-corporate enterprises (CCMCEs) – networks of legally independent yet interconnected firms. He explores the gap between the legal entity and the corporate group, a loophole long exploited to arbitrage national regulations, including taxation. This is the first systematic study of jurisdictional arbitrage and its impact on states and society. By analysing corporate decision-making within fragmented regulatory environments, it unveils the systemic role of legal ambiguity in shaping modern capitalism and corporate dominance.

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