For all these reasons, critics of multinational operations tend to stress
that these organizations can create economic, political, and social havoc,
distorting rather than benefiting the development of their host country. Of
course, the blame is not seen as lying entirely with the multinationals, as
they are usually invited into the countries where they operate and often
do so with the active cooperation and encouragement of ruling governments,
dictatorships, or powerful elites. The critics thus also place a heavy
measure of blame on the ruling classes within those countries for participating
in the domination and exploitation of their nations' human and
material resources. Sometimes, the multinationals engage in explicit or
implicit agreements with ruling authorities regarding the conditions
under which they will operate. Elsewhere the arrangements tend to be
more subtle and the result of careful and continuous political lobbying.