Beginning with the important work of Murphyand Welch (1992), a great deal of recentresearch has attempted to document andexplain the dramatic changes in the wage distributionthat occurred during the 1980s (see also Katz andMurphy 1992). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages...

United States wage performance has been disquieting.Between 1979 and 1993, realhourly compensation rose by just 5.5 percent.This poor average wage performancehas been associated with a dramatic increase in the dispersionof earnings: both in the returns to general characteristicssuch as...

The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of anopen market economy. This is neither a recent nor passing phenomena, but a developmenttrajectory along which market economies have run for millennia. The internationalization(or globalization) of economic...

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...

Different ways of competing in markets came to dominate particular sectors, regions and national market economies in the postwar period as a result of variations in market conditions, technological regimes and institutional contexts. These varied in terms of production volumes, basis of...

Global enterprise resource planning (ERP) programmes are usually initiated top‐down, butthe ubiquitous access to company process information leads to the empowerment of trainedemployees at all levels of the company. The success of current global ERP programmes dependson a wide range of...

After its economic opening in 1978, China has become more and more attractive for foreign direct in-vestments and has developed into a strong internationalization target for other countries. This study ana-lyzes the internationalization-performance relationship of German companies entering the...

„…da ist Musik drin“ – so charakterisiert Reichwald (2004, S. 35) die Thematik der Internationalisierungvon Dienstleistungen. Die Erfolgsstory der Media-Saturn-Gruppe,die im Jahr 2004 im europäischen Ausland 69 neue Märkte eröffnet hat und für ihreInternationalisierungsstrategie auf...

Innerhalb der letzten 20 Jahre hat sich das Wettbewerbsumfeld mitsamt seinen Bedingungenfür die meisten Unternehmen drastisch gewandelt. Diverse Entwicklungenin vielen Branchen bewirkten eine Erosion alter Strukturen und eine Verschiebungbislang vorherrschender Wettbewerbsbedingungen....