Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

The importance of multinational companies (MNCs) in the UK economy is not inquestion. One way in which this is evident is that Britain is a major recipient offoreign direct investment (FDI) by MNCs, accounting for 8.7% of the inward stockof global FDI. In addition, large numbers of...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economiesand changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they developdistinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supportingpolitical-economic...

Egal ob eine Unternehmung einen neuen Standort aufbaut oder eine bestehende Lokation verlegt, sie muss sich jedes Mal damit auseinandersetzen, nach welchen Kriterien die Standortwahl erfolgen soll. Nachdem die Entscheidungskriterien feststehen, können die verschiedenen zur Auswahl stehenden...

Die vorliegende Studie von Britta Utz thematisiert ein hochaktuelles Thema. Es geht um die Auswertung der ersten fünf Jahre Erfahrungen mit den Leitsätzen für multinationale Unterneh-men, die im Rahmen der OECD im Jahre 2000 vereinbart worden sind. Die Unterzeichnerstaa-ten der OECD haben in...

Im Zuge einer Konzentration auf das Kerngeschäft hat die Auslagerung von betrieblich genutzten Immobilien, das Property Outsourcing, stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Sicherstellung der sich aus dem kerngeschäft ergebnden Flexibilitätsanforderungen stellt generell eine Herausforderung dar und...

Germany benefits more than any other country from open world markets and their internationalintegration. As a consequence, worldwide trade and cross-boarder investments arethe most important conditions for domestic growth, employment and wealth and Germanfirms are unabatedly going...

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labourmarkets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries.We find considerable...