TYPES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Basically, an international company" is any company that operates in more than one country, but we have a variety of terms to designate different types of operations. Highly commit ted international companies usually draw on multiple operating types. Companies wor together joint ventures, licensing agreements, management contracts, minority ownership, and long-term contractual arrangements all of which are known as collaborative arrangements. The term strategic alliance is sometimes used to mean the same, but it usually refers either to an agreement that is of critical importance to one or more partners or to an agreement that does not involve joint ownership multinational enterprise (MNE usually refers to any com Multinational Enterprise A pany with foreign direct investments This is the definition we use in this text. writers reason a company must have direct investments in some minimum number of countries to be an MNE,The term multinational corporation or multinational company (MNC) is often used as a synonym for MNE, while the United Nations term national company (TNC) Does Size Matter? ne definitions require a certain size-usually giant. However, a small company, usually described within the United States as having fewer than 500 employees, can have foreign direct investments and adopt the operating modes we've discussed.