International business research has long acknowledged the importance of regional factors for foreign direct investment (FDIʺ) by multinational corporations (MNCsʺ). However, significant differences when defining these regions obscure the analysis about how and why regions matter. In response,...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in an emerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affect inventive activities developed abroad. We look...

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...

Die Schaffung einer konsolidierten Körperschaftsteuerbemessungsgrundlage für die grenzüberschreitende Unternehmenstätigkeit innerhalb der EU steht seit dem Jahr 2001 auf der Agenda der EU-Kommission. Dieses ehrgeizige Ziel ist in unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltungsvarianten denkbar und geht mit...

Over the past decades terms such as regionalism, regionalization, 'regional multinationals', and 'liability of regional foreignness' have populated International Business and Global Strategy research. Notwithstanding their popularity, the definition of the term 'region' is ambiguous, which...