This paper aims at understanding the impact of industrial networks with foreign and otherdomestic organizations on industrial upgrading of the clothing companies in Poland andRomania over the past decade. The research presented in this paper is based oninterviews carried out in ten large...

Nationale rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen beeinflussen die Möglichkeiten für wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) in einem Gastland und der Koordination zwischen den Unternehmensteilen in verschiedenen Ländern. Sie sind damit wichtige Bestimmungsfaktoren für...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sicht mit der Notwendigkeit zur Heranziehung dynamischer Strategieansätze zur Sicherung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit diesem Kontext die zentrale Rolle des „Lernens“ zur Sicherung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Lernen.

This paper considers competition between two multinationals (U, J) who compete in a third market (K).The multinationals have similar cost structures, but differ in that J comes from a country that is “culturallysimilar” to K, and hence produces products that match more closely the...

Das strategische Management hat die von ihm zu verantwortenden Maßnahmen auf die Einflussgrössen zu beziehen, die auf die Unternehmung in seinem Umfeld einwirken. Unter dem Aspekt der Ressourcenschonung sind zu planende Maßnahmen auf die möglichst direkt zu lenkenden Einflussgrössen...

Much recent work on firms' capabilities and competitive competences builds on Penrose's (1959) seminal contribution to the theory of the firm in emphasising their organisational nature, and the critical role of managerial routines in transforming resources into distinctive services (see, e.g....

Recent studies of sectoral specialisation and technological development across market economies have shown how contrasting patterns of technical change can be explained by the different institutional frameworks that have become established in distinct types of economy (see, e.g., Casper, 2000;...

The sweeping political changes and institutional transformation in the former Soviet Union, together with the market shock created by the collapse of the Soviet economy were expected to generate substantial changes in firm behaviours. Privatisation, in particular, was thought to constitute the...

Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

This paper draws on two extensive case studies to explore how the co-production and exchange of knowledge is organised during innovative activity. In the empirical cases multiple, transient innovation systems emerge, and self organise, around a particular problem. The emergence and evolution of...