Corporate Environmentalism in a Global Economy Societal Values in International Technology Transfer

The relationship between multinational corporations and developing countries is frequently characterized by different perspectives and unease. Protection of health, environmental concerns, and other considerations pose potential areas of conflict. Brown and her co-authors use three important case studies and data drawn from extensive access to Du Pont Agrichemical, Occidental Chemical, and Xerox to explore how corporations and nations relate and interact to produce decisions on development, equity, and independence. Those decisions, in turn, involve environmental, health, and safety outcomes. This is an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics and interdependence of multinationals and developing countries as they seek, for independent reasons, to cooperate, on facility development.