The East India Company (EIC), originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, was an English, and later (from 1707)[1] British joint-stock company,
Let’s take any contemporary multinational, say Sony. Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社 Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha?), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Actually the sentence you cite does contain the word “multinational’ while the above sentence I cited doesn’t.
There a trend that modern multinational corporations don’t feel like they belong to any single country. Of cause they tend to comply as much with local laws as necessary to avoid getting into trouble but they don’t they themselves as belonging to any single nation.
The East India Company had its own currency, military vessels, and colonial governors. It effectively functioned like an independent state, much like our modern corporations seem to want to one day.
The first sentence of the article:
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Let’s take any contemporary multinational, say Sony. Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
Actually the sentence you cite does contain the word “multinational’ while the above sentence I cited doesn’t.
There a trend that modern multinational corporations don’t feel like they belong to any single country. Of cause they tend to comply as much with local laws as necessary to avoid getting into trouble but they don’t they themselves as belonging to any single nation.
The East India Company had its own currency, military vessels, and colonial governors. It effectively functioned like an independent state, much like our modern corporations seem to want to one day.