Begriffe wie Informations-, Wissens-und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft prägen das Bild heutiger Volkswirtschaften. Der Dienstleistungssektor hat weltweit stark steigende Zuwachsraten und drängt den klassischen Industriesektor immer stärker in den Hintergrund, die zunehmende Auseinandersetzung...

Will an enterprise in the information age be able to afford to remain just an ordinary firm? Breathtaking progress in the fields of telecommunications and the ur-gency to concentrate on core competencies are revolutionising the company form of output production.(...) [Hans A. Wüthrich, Andreas...

This paper extends the standard Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the multi-firm case. Considering locational equilibria we show that neither holds the Principle of Maximum Differentiation - as in the duopoly model - nor does the Principle of Minimum Differentiation - as in the...

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...

This paper builds on previous work within the conceptual framework of a generalized Darwinism that clarifies such concepts as selection and replication. One of its aims is to refine the concept of the interactor. An overview of the conditions under which group selection may occur helps us...

Since the 1950s our modern society has been in a stage of transformation. The grounds of economic action have been changed due to radical technological transformation in microelectronics, biotechnology, and the development of new manufacturing as well as socio-cultural changes. (...)