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The nature and roles of transnational corporations (TNCs)
Online Lesson | 02 Dec 2026 | Start: 16:00 | DURATION: 4 HOURS Specification content
3.2.1.3 International trade and access to markets
The nature and role of transnational corporations (TNCs), including their spatial organisation, production, linkages, trading and marketing patterns, with a detailed reference to a specified TNC and its impacts on those countries in which it operates.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- the characteristics of TNCs.
- why TNCs operate in different countries and the largest TNCs operating globally.
- how TNCs can be spatially organised into distinct zones often due to ‘offshoring and ‘outsourcing.
- what the advantages and disadvantages of TNCs are.
- the structure and spatial organisation of a specific TNC.
- the impacts of a specific TNC on countries it operates in.-
Suggested timing
4 hours
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Course Module: Global systems and global governance (Autumn 2) | Lesson The nature and roles of transnational corporations (TNCs):
Online Lesson | 02 Dec 2026 | Start: 16:00 | DURATION: 4 HOURS Specification content
3.2.1.3 International trade and access to markets
The nature and role of transnational corporations (TNCs), including their spatial organisation, production, linkages, trading and marketing patterns, with a detailed reference to a specified TNC and its impacts on those countries in which it operates.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- the characteristics of TNCs.
- why TNCs operate in different countries and the largest TNCs operating globally.
- how TNCs can be spatially organised into distinct zones often due to ‘offshoring and ‘outsourcing.
- what the advantages and disadvantages of TNCs are.
- the structure and spatial organisation of a specific TNC.
- the impacts of a specific TNC on countries it operates in.-
Suggested timing
4 hours
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