Business services have been one of the fatest growing export areas in emerging economies over the past decade. The spread of information and communication technologies and the rise in trade liberalization have facilitated the global unbundling and offshoring of services activities from advanced...

Multinationale Unternehmen und deren Auslandsinvestitionen stehen durch die Globalisierung zunehmend im Fokus der Betrachtungen. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt in diesem Zusammenhang einen Einblick in theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung von multinationalen Unternehmen und eine umfassende...

In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By combining and further analyzing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or merger-like transactions it can be shown that the industry alone is no strong indication for...

Purpose: This paper analyzes the association of searching diversely as a strategy to capture external knowledge and that of competition intensity with innovation in logistics. Secondly it studies how these associations interact by examining whether they intensify or mitigate one another when...