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Even though small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) were believed not to proceed beyond exporting in their internationalization routes, we can observe new types of co-operation intensive entrepreneurial firms – so-called “micromultinational enterprises” (mMNEs) – entering the global...
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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We study the role of banking relationships in IPO underwriting. Among other issues, we consider whether banking relationships lead to increased access to public equity markets, especially for smaller, lesserknown firms. When a firm in Japan goes public, it can engage an investment bank that is...
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importance of the size and homogeneity of a regional pool of knowledge spillovers for those networks is analyzed. We find …
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understand these connection. Innovations could be seen to relate to business networks in two ways: they may result from … business partners, be fitted into new or current business networks. In the literature on innovation, the incremental, radical … characteristics of business networks based on their role to create various types of innovations, and based on the various types …
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certain task on these levels. Today, however, companies are tightly interconnected and rely on business networks to develop … blockchain technology, operate across business networks and, thus, unfold their benefits not only on an individual or group level … technology is still scarce. To drive the performance of technology in such networks, we investigate the impact of fit and …
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Agricultural, quality agro-food, supply-chain and rural districts were introduced by Italian law in 2001. With reference to European structural policies, especially rural development policy, and to the districts' originality and relationship to the LEADER method and programmes, we wonder whether...
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An die Internetnutzung und besonders an die Entwicklung des elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs zwischen Unternehmen - B2B e-Business oder kurz B2B - werden hohe Erwartungen gestellt. Sie sollen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Unternehmen durch sinkende Kosten, schnellere Information und erhöhte...
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This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...
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