Over the past two decades, equity carve-outs (ECOs) have become an increasingly popular form of corporate restructuring in Europe. Individual business segments are separated from the parent conglomerate company, and a minority stake is listed on the stock exchange. The parent company thus...

In the changing geography of innovation, multinational corporations play a key role as creators of knowledge. Innovation and the Multinational Firm investigates how innovation is managed within these firms by focusing particularly on subsidiaries and host-locations

Internationalization processes have long been a core topic of International Business research. Very little focus, however, was thereby put on how foreign subsidiaries themselves internationalize. Nicolas Lohr investigates how foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations expand their...

International business scholars have conducted a considerable amount of research on both headquarters-subsidiary relationships and subsidiary roles. The horizontal relationships between foreign subsidiaries, however, have not gained much attention - although these linkages are important to the...

In the past decades, the notion of differentiated subsidiary roles within multinational network corporations has inspired a considerable amount of research. Surprisingly, the question of whether headquarters and subsidiary managers perceive a certain subsidiary’s role in the same way has been...

Bleiben bei einer gut aufgestellten Organisation die bisherigen Erfolge aus, dann ist oft ein gefährlicher Organizational Burnout (OBO) die Ursache dafür. Erstmalig beschreibt Gustav Greve das weit verbreitete Phänomen des OBO, erklärt die Erfolgsdefizite der betroffenen Unternehmen und...

Part I: Corporate Governance and Firm Performance -- Part II: Corporate Governance and Firm Behaviour -- Part III: Corporate Governance Pracices in Emerging Markets -- Part IV: Corporate Governance: Laws, Reforms and Practical Issues -- Part V: Corporate Governance Matters: Lessons from...

Individuum und Organisation - Revisited: Neue Konturen eines organisationswissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldes? -- Organizational Legitimacy as Deliberation: Towards a New Political Role of the Business Firm -- Elitenzirkulation und organisationaler Wandel. Ein Beitrag zu einer politischen...

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the...

Intuition stellt in der heutigen rational geprägten Unternehmenswelt eine wichtige Ressource bei Entscheidungen dar. Anhand der aktuellen Erkenntnisse der Intuitionsforschung analysiert Thomas Holtfort, warum Unternehmen Intuition in ihre Entscheidungsprozesse integrieren können und sollen....