This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collectedand evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domesticR&D managers? We envision...

Im Informationszeitalter ist ein fundamentaler gesellschaftlicher Wandel eingetreten. Das Internet als globalesNetz von Informationssystemen ermöglicht immer leichter den Austausch von Daten, Information und Wissenüber die politischen Grenzen von Ländern hinweg. Die Welt wird zum ”Globalen...

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number andthe location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases whentrade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production intoa single country, which is likely to be the...

We develop a two-country labour-market model characterised by union wage-bargaining, in which the unemployed incur individual-specific costs of seeking work abroad. We explore the effects on equilibrium unemployment and population in each country of changes in union bargaining strength,...

This paper analyses the consequences of multinational corporations’ (MNCs) movetowards integrated transnational networks (ITNs) which leads to an increase in theinterdependency of organizational entities. We suggest that this increased interdependencyrequires new ways of coordination that...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die internationalen Entwicklung von Arbeitseinstellungen auf der Basis einer groß angelegten Untersuchung.