This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

This primer is intended to serve as a background text for a 'platform chapter' in Bachelor or Master level courses on Strategic Management. While the 'traditional firm' can be described as a value-adding chain (Pipeline), platform businesses 'invert' production and consumption to the outside and...

"Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik der meisten OECD-Länder reagiert auf die Weltwirtschaftskrise von 1974/75 zunächst mit kurzfristig beschäftigungserhaltenden Maßnahmen. Als sich die Wachstumsraten der Vorrezessionsperiode nicht wieder einstellen, werden diese ursprünglich nur auf eine...

"Das 1982 unter Präsident Reagan verabschiedete und 1984 endgültig in Kraft getretene neue amerikanische Arbeitsförderungsgesetz (Job Trainging and Partnership Act - JTPA) markiert den vorläufig letzten Akt in der wechselvollen Geschichte der amerikanischen Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Durch JTPA...

With some delay, the internationalization of business research and development (R&D) is following the globalization of production. Starting on a small scale during the 1970s and 1980s, the emergence of globally distributed R&D networks of multinational enterprises (MNEs) accelerated rapidly in...

In the mid 1990s India's Tata Motors Ltd. entered the passenger car business after having prospered for more than 40 years as a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Based on archival data and on expert interviews the paper analyses the resource acquisition and internationalisation strategies and...