essential tool to stimulate growth and enable firms to master the competition brought about by the forces of globalization. In … specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the “globalization of innovation”. Based on recent …

The present thesis develops a formal model of endogenous growth that incorporates costly knowledge codification as a … means of intergenerational knowledge transfer. It identifies the circumstances under which knowledge codification takes … knowledge codification is central to utilize the non-rivalry of ideas for economic growth. However, while the usual models of …

Dienstleistungssektor unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kundenintegration erklärt werden kann.Als Ausgangspunkt wird argumentiert, dass … absatzorientierten Auslandsinvestitionen und mithin der weitaus überwiegende Teil der Entstehung von MNU im Dienstleistungssektor … erklären.Die zentrale Bedeutung der Kundenintegration bei der Entstehung von MNU im Dienstleistungssektor wird zudem empirisch …

knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark without knowledge accumulation it is shown that relaxing the usual assumption of … trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain experience by performing R&D, the resulting effect of knowledge … stable equilibrium where mergers were not profitable, we show that globalization can trigger cross-border merger waves for a …

research results to Thailand. Moreover, they are more frequently embedded in international and domestic knowledge and … technology and knowledge in Thailand. However, the absorptive capacity of local firms for the absorption of new technology and …

the knowledge about information asymmetries and instruments to resolve this problem I could identify strategic instruments … host consumers to scan foreign product characteristics. In this way host consumers adopt knowledge about the foreign … to overcome the firms' lack of knowledge about host consumer preferences and adapt to local peculiarities. Therefore, it …