In den neuen Bundesländern hat sich der wirtschaftliche Horizont in letzter Zeit wieder aufgehellt — trotz der Wolken, die über die Bauwirtschaft hinwegziehen und deren Schatten auch andere Bereiche überdecken. Mit fortschreitender konjunktureller Erholung im Westen gewinnen nun auch im...

In a transforming economy there is a common legacy of most companies: their low competitiveness as the result of an obsolete capital stock and overmanning, insufficient product quality that does not satisfy demand, distorted specialization patterns, high and partly ill-designed integration,...

Economic restructuring in the transition from plan to market concerns the way enterprises try to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises have to decide where to compete, that is to say with which product they should enter which markets, and how to compete, that is by which strategy...