Das Grundlagenwerk analysiert erstmals die Vielzahl der unter dem Begriff Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gefassten normativen Prozesse und unterzieht diese zugleich einer Systematisierung und kritischen Prüfung. Nationales, supranationales und Völkerrecht sowie transnationale...

"The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark. This book analyzes the fundamental factors of...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

This paper employs a homogenous firms database to investigate industry localization in European countries. More specifically, we compare, across industries and countries, the predictions of two of the most popular localization indices, i.e., the Ellison and Glaeser index (Ellison and Glaeser,...