The present study adds to the ongoing discussions on the economic and industrial change in postcommunist Central Europe by investigating in-depth the case of a relatively successful development of two large domestic IT firms from Poland. The case is theoretically interesting because it calls...

The focus in this paper is on the structure of relationships between business organisations across borders as explored in organisation science, network theory, and the theory of international business. The concept of business networks is thoroughly discussed in the context of the global...

This paper analyzes incentives of a multinational enterprise to manipulate an internal transfer price to take advantage of corporate-tax differences across countries under both monopoly and oligopoly. We examine "cost plus" and "comparable uncontrollable price" as two alternative implementations...

Foreign direct investment is in reality a heterogeneous flow of funds, composed of both greenfield-FDI ("greenfield investment") and acquisition-FDI (cross-border mergers and acquisitions). We analyse the choice of FDI mode in an international oligopoly where process R&D decisions are made...

This paper studies the strategic role of foreign direct investments (FDIs) when specified as a device for a multinational enterprise (MNE) to precommit capacity. This captures the idea of a MNE preempting the host market or, at least, achieving more profitable outcomes by setting the initial...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Defining Competition & AI Developments -- Chapter 3. Competition & Governance -- Chapter 4. Competition, Market Power and Politics -- Chapter 5. Competition & AAI -- Chapter 6. US versus EU Competition -- Chapter 7. Chicago School, Harvard School, New...

This paper reviews the recent literature on the relocation of headquarters (HQs). Overall results show that full and direct international relocations of corporate HQs are rare events. However, there is a trend that MNEs increasingly unbundle their HQs so as to spread their different HQs...

Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...

The paper complements entry mode research by dealing with the choice of alternative modes of governance in the specific case of foreign R&D and its impact on a parent firm's performance. Firstly, we identify the factors that determine whether a firm locates abroad any R&D activities, and, if it...