World markets are highly interlinked and local economies extensively rely on global supply and value chains. Consequently, local production disruptions, for instance caused by extreme weather events, are likely to induce indirect losses along supply chains with potentially global repercussions....

World food markets are susceptible to systemic shocks due to a concentration of production in a few main breadbasket regions, strong import dependencies of many developing countries, and frequent unilateral and uncoordinated policy interventions such as export restrictions.The well-established...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...

Dimensionen des I-K-W-Managements und Möglichkeiten der Optimierung dieses Konzepts. Unter der Prämisse einer grundlegenden Kohärenz von Information, Kommunikation und Wissen konnte demonstriert werden, wie die Netzwerkkonzepte diesen Integrationsversuch befruchten. So wurde im ersten Kapitel...