During the 1990s many transnational organizations have achieved important changes in their strategies and structures ...

In this paper we examine the valuati While it is well known that firms with high levels of intangible assets prefon effects and long-term performance of U.S. multinational firms involved in forced transfers of their foreign operating assets during the 1965-1988 period.(...)

This discussion paper analyzes the relationship between the individual growth dimensions. Futhermore it tries to identify common growth patterns.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit International verteilte Kompetenzen und Integrationskonzepte für Wissens-zentren in multinationalen Unternehmen.

...This article will argue that some very special characteristics of external growth are neglected by such theories as the eclectic paradigm (Dunning, 1993) or the internalization school (Buckley and Casson, 1976; Caves, 1986). The question arises whether these theories meet the claim oftheir...

The following cases deal with corporate governance in multinational corporations in the automotve sector.

This essay gives an overview of the special features of funding foreign subsidiaries. The central issue discussed ist the possibility of funding by equity capital or borrowed capital in the form of loans an trade accounts payable.

Die Liste der Hindernisse bei der Beschaffung in China ist so lang wie die Chinesische Mauer. Aufgrund von miserabler Qualität, lausiger Infrastruktur und wuchernder Staatsbürokratie dürfte es eigentlich kaum jemanden geben, der wirklich bei den Chinesen einkauft. Ist aber so. Unsere Autoren...

The pharmaceutical sector in China is an attractiveprospect. According to China´s National Bureauof Statistics, the number of individuals participatingin a basic medical care system increasedfrom slightly below 18 million peoplein 1997, to more than 94 million in 2002. Yet alarge potential...