Corporate Citizenship – A New Challenge to Policy-Makers

This article deals with the importance of corporate citizenship for the attractiveness of a modern, competitive location of business activities. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that within internationally active business firms, departments with high value-added and departments with high decision-making power will remain in the country of the parent company. Most important, to a high extent the parent companies of multinational firms are based in the country which is home to the so-called strategic owners of the concern.