(...)The topic was not too narrowly defined: it included organizational virtualness and all the research activities and partical experiences that focus on organizational structure, behaviorial patterns and technological support of virtual organizations, as well as virtual organizations in a...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms.(...)

In the debate on globalization it is often argued that multinational corporations (MNCs) have gained increasing power due to their growth and due to new global or transnational structures and strategies.(...)

The paper documents and analyses the rise of a transnational transport and logistics industry within the European Union...

Managers in a global business environment work with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Team members bring their different national and professional backgrounds to the table, and suppliers and clients come from different corporate cultures...

Der Autor der vorliegenden Dissertation kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass in der bestehenden Literatur der unmittelbare Zusammenhang zwischen Wohlfahrt und staatlicher Beeinflussung der Belieferungswahl eines Unternehmers durch Subventionen nicht ausreichend analysiert worden ist. Deswegen wird ein...

Mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetwirtschaft stellt Russland noch immer eine sehr dynamische und komplexe Unternehmensumwelt dar, die sich in einem Zustand st?ndigen Wandels befindet. Die Charakterisierung dieser Umwelt erfolgt anhand von Erkenntnissen der interdisziplin?ren...

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Konzeptualisierung der Internationalit?t der Unternehmung. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet die Erkenntnis, dass einzelne existente (Mess)Konzepte der Komplexit?t des Konstruktes Internationalit?t der Unternehmung nicht gerecht werden. Der Operationalisierung und...

The established theories on the performance of the foreign firm in host country markets raise a puzzle: on the one hand, foreign ventures may be more likely to possess certain advantages that could help them outperform local competitors. On the other hand, foreign ventures suffer a disadvantage...

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...