The internationalization of business within the last fifty years has led to a growing importanceof international human resource management (IHRM) (see, for example, Dowling et al. 1994,Desatnick and Bennet 1977, Evans et al. 2002 or Harzing/van Ruysseveldt 1995). Especiallythe role of...

As a main dimension of intercultural communication competence,intercultural sensitivity has increasingly gained attention in research indifferent disciplines. In the United States, Chen and Starosta havedeveloped an instrument, comprising 5 factors with 24 items, formeasuring intercultural...

Eine Kerndimension von Modellen der interkulturellen Kompetenz bildet die interkulturelle Sensibilität von Personen, die in zunehmendem Maße den Gegenstand empirischer forschungsbemühungen bildet. In den USA hat Chen ein Meßmodell der interkulturellen Sensibilität empirisch generiert, das...

Niemand bezweifelt heute mehr die Bedeutung der Unternehmenskultur für den Erfolg eines Unternehmens. In den letzten 15 Jahren wurde viel über das Thema Unternehmenskultur geschrieben. Es wurden ein-, zwei- und mehrdimensionale Modelle aufgestellt und immer wieder neue Definitionen, die kaum...

This study assesses the impact of the single market program (SMP) and the European monetary union (EMU) on the German banking sector. As in contrast to manufacturing or agriculture, many industries within the services sector could seal themselves off the competitors in foreign countries up to...

This paper suggests that current research on international business should provide for a more prominent role of Politics in its analysis. International research examines transactions that reach across national borders, yet nations and their borders have so far not been sufficiently...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

This paper estimates a trivariate two-factor conditional version of the Intertemporal CAPM of Merton (1973).