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Technological and regulatory changes affecting multinational enterprises in telecommunications: aspects of the impact on the workforce.
Mansell, R; Tang, Puay - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966799
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The long and the short of it: California's electricity crisis
Friedman, Lee S. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 1/2, pp. 4-31
Unexpected problems sometimes arise when governments attempt to introduce competition. The problem considered herein is market power and its exercise during the California electricity crisis of 2000–2001. In introducing competition, both transitional and long-run opportunities for firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130290
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Employment relations in German multinational companies in the UK and the future of the German model: empirical evidence on country-of-origin effects and industry internationalisati...
Tuselmann, Heinz-Josef; Heise, Arne; McDonald, Frank; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 390-408
Interest has grown in the significance of the country-of-origin impact on the Employment Relations (ER) approaches in the international subsidiaries of Multinational Companies (MNCs). In this article, a comparative cross-sectional analysis of German subsidiaries with indigenous UK firms will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353022
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Effects of the M&A Wave in the Global Brewing Industry 2000-2010
Madsen, Erik S.; Pedersen, Kurt; Lund-Thomsen, Lars - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4
unterstützen die aus der Literatur der industriellen Organisation bekannte Marktmacht-Hypothese. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250308
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Wettbewerbspolitischer Handlungsbedarf bei der Verknüpfung von zweiseitigen Märkten im Internet: Der Fall Google
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas; Köllmann, … - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 62 (2013) 3, pp. 311-332
We discuss competition policy issues of vertical integration in internetbased two-sided markets against the background of the Google antitrust allegations. Network effects and economics of scale often lead to dominating companies, which are integrated over several markets. This implies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750347
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Can insider power affect employment?.
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2003
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520169
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Wettbewerbspolitischer Handlungsbedarf bei der Verknüpfung von zweiseitigen Märkten im Internet: Der Fall Google
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas; Köllmann, … - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 62 (2013) 3, pp. 311-332
We discuss competition policy issues of vertical integration in internetbased two-sided markets against the background of the Google antitrust allegations. Network effects and economics of scale often lead to dominating companies, which are integrated over several markets. This implies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820106
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Führt Google Shopping zu einer neuen Art von Wettbewerbsproblem?
Blanckenburg, Korbinian von - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 240-256
This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123609
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Market power on the edge? An analysis of the German and Hungarian hog markets
Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan; Ferto, Imre; Hockmann, Heinrich; … - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 8
zu beurteilen, ob die Ausübung von Marktmacht die Ressourcenallokation auf den deutschen und ungarischen … Ausübung von Marktmacht bedingten Verzerrungen allerdings als gering anzusehen sind. Die Schätzungen implizieren, dass die …, dass die Marktmacht der Verarbeiter im deutschen Schweinesektor abnehmend ist, während sie sich im ungarischen Sektor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142851
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Wettbewerb und Regulierung in der Telekommunikation.
Klodt, Henning; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Lorz, Jens Oliver - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008590845