This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. Knebel -- Chapter 4. FRAND Commitments and Royalties for...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

Angesichts einer weiter zunehmenden Bedeutung der Globalisierungsthematik verfolgt diese Arbeit das Ziel, wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren und Konfliktbereiche des Managements globaler Produkte zu ermitteln. Hierzu wurde vom Verfasser mit Hilfe einer umfangreichen empirischen Untersuchung das...