Multinational corporations (MNCs) usually set up their production units, where they found lucrative business conditions like- business friendly government policies, economical skilled labour, proximity to the market and so on.

In this regard, MNCs control production in following ways-

Various ways in which MNCs control production in other countries:

(i) Forging partnerships with local companies: By doing this MNCs, bring in required capital and expertise in the running of local company. In addition, in certain scenarios, latest technologies are also shared, which increases the overall productivity of the concerned business.

(ii) Competing with local companies or buying them up: Owing to their large capital base, MNCs often end up buying the local companies, or weed them out of business.

(iii) Outsourcing of required inputs: MNCs often uses the products of local company for making their product. E.g. in garments, footwear, sports items, etc. The products are supplied to MNCs which have great power to determine price, quality, delivery and labour conditions for these distant producers.