This cumulative dissertation consists of five chapters. In terms of research content, my thesis can be divided into two parts. Part one examines local interactions and spillover effects between small regional governments using spatial econometric methods. The second part focuses on patterns...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

Organizational ambidexterity wurde kürzlich als "heisses Thema" innerhalb der Strategieforschung bezeichnet (Birkinshaw and Gupta, 2014: 2). Es definiert sich als die Fähigkeit einer Firma gleichzeitig exploration und exploitation durchzuführen (Gupta et al., 2006) und hat sich als "neues...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...