Multinational Corporations Multinational investment has (1) ________. (1) ________. Establishment of a multinational corporation (MNC) was a way to generate income from diversified sources, a way to (2) ________ return on investment and to benefit from cheaper (2) ________. labour abroad. The formation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958 (3) ________ the growth of MNCs. Today the (3) ________. large MNCs control from 50 to 200 subsidiaries. A favourable aspect about MNCs is that they create (4) ________ in foreign countries. They also contribute (4) ________. to innovation or (5) ________ of new products and (5) ________. technology. But when innovation levels off and local technology reaches a point of sufficiency, MNCs are sometimes considered to be no longer (6) ________. (6) ________. (7) ________ MNCs must learn to interrelate their subsidiaries (7) ________. with the parent company, to (8) ________ decision-making authority (8) ________. and to develop satisfactory methods of control and supervision. An MNC must deal with (9) ________, different legal (9) ________. and tax structures, foreign currency. Other problems include how to secure continued (10) ________ to resources, how to increase market (10) ________. share, and how to tackle increased criticism and interference by foreign government, etc.