Dieser Beitrag setzt sich aus einer gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit dem Phänomen "Internationale Konzerne" auseinander. Dabei wird auf die (potentiellen) betriebswirtschaftlichen und volkswirtschaftlichen Vor- und Nachteile sowie Chancen und Risiken dieser Organisationsform...

Purpose - This study examines the factors that influence the performance of Indian software professionals and the moderators of performance. Emotional intelligence competencies at the individual level, transformational leadership style of the team leaders and social capital among team members at...

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...

Grocery retailing was, and is still often considered to be a prevailing domestic economic activity. Trends, however, are changing. In the meantime, an internationalization of grocery retailing, which took off at least 40 years ago allowed for the development of a coexistence of both domestic and...

Monetary coordination is high on the agenda of different regional organizations in Africa. Economic benefits of a common currency, like lower transaction cost, increased macroeconomic stability, or the shielding of central banks against political pressure from nationalist elites and their...

The WAEMU and the Franc CFA-Zone: A new culture of co-operation in Francophone Africa? The CFA-zone is basically composed of two sub-zones, characterised by significant structural economic and political differences within and between its member countries: the West African Economic and Monetary...

The aim of the present contribution is two-fold. First, we are going to briefly overview the theoretical arguments suggesting that regional economic integration may enhance the process of real economic convergence or catching up by less-advanced members of integration arrangements towards the...

Zwar fanden in fünf der 16 westafrikanischen Länder - zum Teil zum zweiten Mal - Parlaments- oder Präsidentschaftswahlen statt (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Kapverden, Niger), aber in dem meisten Ländern stagnierte der Demokratisierungsprozeß. Ein international beachteter vertraulicher...

Der Demokratisierungsprozeß Westafrikas machte nur langsam Fortschritte. Zu Jahresbeginn schien es noch, als könne ein Machtwechsel gegen das herrschende politische Establishment nur gewaltsam durch einen Militärputsch nach dem Muster der Côte d’ Ivoire gelingen, wo General Robert Gueï...

Die zusammenbrechende staatliche Ordnung, Gesetzlosigkeit und Verelendung in westafrikanischen Ländern wie Liberia und Sierra Leone bildeten den Hintergrund eines Szenarios drohender Anarchie, das der Politologe Robert Kaplan in einem international viel¬beachteten Artikel "The Coming Anarchy"...