The paper examines the determinants of productivity growth in foreign manufacturingsubsidiaries in five Central and East European (CEE) countries by analysing patterns ofcontrol, nature of firms’ capabilities and firms’ market orientation. Building on the socalled ‘developmental...

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between changes in theownership structure and the development of life insurance companies in Poland. The simpleregression model is used to reveal the relation. The findings of this study, that the solvencyratio, overall indebtedness...

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the productionof electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global productionnetworks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using networkalignment...

This paper aims at understanding the impact of industrial networks with foreign and otherdomestic organizations on industrial upgrading of the clothing companies in Poland andRomania over the past decade. The research presented in this paper is based oninterviews carried out in ten large...

The depth of industry integration between European ‘West’ and ‘East’ depends on thesimultaneous existence of several factors, which, through mutual complementarities,align global and local networks. This paper takes the case of Asea Brown Bowery (ABB),one of the first large investors in...

Videoton is the main contracting manufacturing company in the electronics industry in central Europe. The business model that has been developed through Videoton has greater relevance for understanding the growth of enterprises and the modes of integration of the Central and Eastern Europe into...

This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inequality, and growth, both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. We set up a growth model of a dual economy in which the traditional (agricultural) sector uses a diminishing returns technology, while FDI...

Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1949 weist die Volksrepublik (VR) China eine erstaunliche politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung auf. Die wirtschaftliche und politische Lage des Landes Ende der 70er Jahre weckten innerhalb der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh) erste Reformgedanken, das...

Der Wirtschaftsstandort Iran bietet ausländischen Investoren gute Investitions­möglichkeiten. Zudem sind die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für Auslandsinvestitionen in diesem Land seit der Implementierung des neuen Investitionsgesetzes in 2001 günstig. Der Zufluss der...