This work is split up into four parts. These are 'Overviews', 'The Pacific as Linchpin of World Trade', 'Winners and Losers in the Global Silver Trade', and 'Birth of Globalization Debate: Ecological, Economic, Epidemiological, and Demographic Interactions'

Erstes Kapitel: Einleitung -- Zweites Kapitel: Forschungsstand und Problemkonkretisierung -- Drittes Kapitel: Entwicklung des Bezugsrahmens -- Viertes Kapitel: Empirische Untersuchung -- Fünftes Kapitel: Kernbefunde, Limitierungen und Implikationen.

Matthias Schu examines three main topics in his research: The intention of store-based retail and wholesale companies to open up an own online channel, factors determining the foreign market selection behavior of online retailers as well as factors affecting the speed in the internationalization...