Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der IHK zu Schwerineine Befragung der Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes und derDienstleistungsbranche Westmecklenburgs zum Thema "Analyse der Auslandsaktivitätenvon Unternehmen in Westmecklenburg" durchzuführen.Die Analyse soll dazu...

Die Gesundheitswirtschaft ist bislang eine Branche,die im Großen und Ganzen durch nationale,z. T. sogar regionale Absatzmärkte gekennzeichnetist. Zwar sind einige Teilbereiche der Branche– v. a. Pharma und Medizintechnik – bereits heuteauf globale Märkte ausgerichtet, jedoch sind...

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...

As German firms increasingly expand to foreign nations, managers have to be aware ofthe performance implications of internationalization processes. We find that internationalizationdoes not have an ongoing positive performance effect and needs to be managedcarefully, especially after a certain...

The formation and the diversity of most types of organizations goinginternational are well researched. However, some aspects of postmodernlife, such as sports and entertainment, are presently growing in importanceand management complexity.

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...

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 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...