The international transactions accounts provide information on trade in goods and services (including the balance of payments and the balance of trade), investment income, and government and private financial flows. In addition, the accounts measure the value of U.S. international assets and...

The paper studies why a corporation hopes to keep technological leadership. The answer is shown by a theoretical model in the perspective of technological transfer. The model consisting of two countries, each of which contains numerous corporations,has pointed out: restrained technological...

(...)The topic was not too narrowly defined: it included organizational virtualness and all the research activities and partical experiences that focus on organizational structure, behaviorial patterns and technological support of virtual organizations, as well as virtual organizations in a...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms.(...)

In the debate on globalization it is often argued that multinational corporations (MNCs) have gained increasing power due to their growth and due to new global or transnational structures and strategies.(...)

The paper documents and analyses the rise of a transnational transport and logistics industry within the European Union...

Managers in a global business environment work with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Team members bring their different national and professional backgrounds to the table, and suppliers and clients come from different corporate cultures...

Diese Dissertation untersucht zu welchem Maße die außerstaatliche Anwendung von "Title VII", the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act bei Personalabteilungen in transnationalen Unternehmen bekannt ist, die nach diesen Gesetzen haftbar sind.

Kultur besteht nicht nur aus ihrer sichtbaren Auswirkungen (sogenannte Artefakte, z. B. das Verhalten) und den darunter liegenden Werten und Normen. Kern der Kultur sind jedoch die unbewussten kollektiven Grundannahmen über Zeit, Raum, Realität, Natur, Menschen und Beziehungen, die als...

Confronted with an ongoing trend towards European integration and a variety of different national Human Resource Management (HRM) approaches, multinational organisations operating in Europe face the task of determining an optimal and flexible degree of standardisation for their European HRM...