Analysis of high-tech international cooperation of the UAE on the example of the activities of the company Etisalat - Emirates Telecom Corp

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This article analyses the activities of Etisalat Telecommunications Company (UAE). Criteria for classifying a company as a transnational company (TNC) are being investigated. The company's internal and international activities are briefly described, the structure of its products (services provided) is presented. The level of nationalization of the company's activities was estimated, indicators were calculated: nationalization index, network expansion index, internationalization index, FDI ease index. An analysis of the distribution of the company's activities in different regions of the world (total number, sales of products, assets) was carried out. The peculiarities of the company's trans-nationalization and the impact of the epidemic on its foreign activities were revealed.

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Fatima Ahmadi

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

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Email: 1032195292@rudn.ru

Postgraduate Student, Department of Political Economy

117198, Moscow, Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6

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