CONCEPTS USED IN STATISTICAL BUSINESS REGISTERS IN VIEW OF GLOBALIZATION AND THE INFORMATION-SOCIETY

The globalisation of markets and the development of the information so ciety are two factors increasingly affecting statistical business regi sters, The article describes a number of problems caused by the global isation process and the information society as which kind of business units should be recorded-enterprises or enterprise groups, how cross-b order ownership, control and cooperation could be identified in the ad ministrative registers, classification of activity in connection with foreign subsidiaries, recording of date of commencement of foreign sub sidiaries in a national economy, recording of places of work in the ca se of teleworking, problems in connection with the recording of indivi duals involved in teleworking as self-employed persons and the emergen ce of virtual enterprises, The article also raises the question of whe ther there is a need for an international satellite register for (tran snational) concerns, Both globalisation and the growing information so ciety therefore place new demands on statistical business registers, a nd these demands might necessitate mobilisation of additional resource s for maintaining and developing the registers.