This paper explores growth and competitive advantage in CEE software firms; it looks at therole of strategic partnerships and industry (spillover) effects. The empirical analysis is basedon survey data from 224 software firms from six CEE countries (Bulgaria, Czech R, Estonia,Serbia, Slovenia,...

This report is a part of our study “The Emergence of Indian Multinationals: An Empirical Study of Motives, Status-quo and Trends of Indian Investments in Germany”. The study was conducted under the aegis of our “Research Project Global Innovation” at the Institute of Technology and...

... Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen industriesoziologischen Ansätzenbleibt die Beschäftigtenperspektive weitgehend aus der Debatte über globale Kooperationen ausgeklammert. Diese Forschungslücke immerhin zu verkleinern, ist Ziel der vorliegenden Fallstudie.

... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...

We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the license raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations and different nancial development. To guide...

We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...