The emergence of an integrated European market will provide new opportunities and new challenges to firms operating in the international arena. This volume addresses some timely issues concerning the "new" European market, with a focus on the multinational corporation and foreign direct...

Economic globalization is a complex phenomenon where the links between social security expenditures and globalization are not well understood so far. This study summarizes new key findings and highlights new theoretical insights in the field of social security systems, labor standards, taxation...

In den Sektoren Automobilwirtschaft und Informations- & Kommunikationstechnologie haben sich im Zuge der EU-Osterweiterung, der Globalisierung und der Technologieintensivierung der Produktion starke Veränderungen in West- und Osteuropa ergeben. Die Bedeutung der Clusterdynamik, den...