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There's no Place Like Home: A Strategic Framework to Overcome Liability of Foreignness in the German Car Market
Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - 2005
Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297496
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Impact of Service Station Networks on Purchase Decisions of Alternative-fuel Vehicles
Achtnicht, Martin; Bühler, Georg; Hermeling, Claudia - 2008
conducted as a CAPI survey with about 600 interviews of potential car buyers in Germany and estimate the coefficients of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298664
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There's no Place Like Home: A Strategic Framework to Overcome Liability of Foreignness in the German Car Market
Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059054
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Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation
Leheyda, Nina - 2008
This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298702
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Competition and trust: Evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307845
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Targeted advertising in magazine markets
Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2010
We examine the scope and value of targeted advertising in the magazine industry. We use data on reader characteristics at individual media, in contrast to previous work that has needed to infer this information from aggregate data. Our results show a strong relationship between subscriber...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302598
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Absorptive Capacity: One Size Fits All? Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge
Schmidt, Tobias - 2005
The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms for three different types of knowledge, namely absorptive capacity to use knowledge from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297484
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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006
country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297509
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Innovation Activities Abroad and the Effects of Liability of Foreignness: Where it Hurts
Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297537
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Internationalizing R&D Co-opetition: Dress for the Dance with the Devil
Schmiele, Anja; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007
Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international expansion of firms and increased international competition, the R&D collaborations with international competitors (international co-opetition) is becoming an increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297928