"As the twenty-first century begins, the world finds itself with a wide range of possible economic futures. Many corporations find it difficult to compete in international markets with the result being shrinking revenue. Too many governments utilize an excessively high percentage of their...

This study provides a thourough and detailed analysis of the competitiveness of the Austrian service sectors. It combines several industry classifications reflecting different structural features and international regulatory regimes that might be relevant for a sector?s export potential and...

"The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common--old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne...

Der Luft- und Raumfahrzeugbau gehört in Deutschland zu den wachsenden Industriezweigen. Dieser Spitzentechnologie-Sektor ist auf qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte und technische Innovationen angewiesen, deshalb sind erfolgreiche Forschung und technologische Entwicklungen für die internationale...

In this paper we analyze the connection between ecological dumping and environmental capital flight which in the literature is presented in three versions: capital flees in order to ecologically dump, firms flee and thus ecologically dump, and capital flees because governments ecologically dump....

The US manufacturing sector is currently experiencing its most significant upswing in 35 years, leading many politicians and economic analysts to claim that the US economy is being re-industrialised. While the notion of a renaissance of the industrial sector does not seem far-fetched, given that...