Ausgehend von der These, dass Arbeit in wissensintensiven Projekten nicht wie standardisierbare Routinearbeit koordiniert und reguliert werden kann, geht die Untersuchung der Frage nach, welche besonderen Herausforderungen sich für Mitarbeiter, Management und Interessenvertretung mit dieser...

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...