Österreich ist nachweisliche einer der größten Profiteure der EU-Osterweiterung. Gerade auch Klein- und Mittelbetriebe wagen sich immer öfter über die Grenzen, und das mit großem Erfolg. Wir analysierten deshalb im Detail den Internationalisierungsprozess von elf ausgewählten...

Ziel dieser Broschüre ist es, Wege und Werkzeuge zur Entwicklung, Umsetzung und Verankerungvon Strategie in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen aufzuzeigen (im folgenden als„KMU“ abgekürzt).Um den Besonderheiten von KMU gerecht zu werden, gilt es insbesondere zu fragen:...

The concept of “relatedness” between industries plays an increasingly central role in economics andstrategic management. However, relatedness has remained rather elusive in empirical terms. In thisarticle, we investigate relatedness between industries in terms of the extent to which the same...

This paper considers the behavior patterns of Russian firms before and during thefinancial crisis of 2008-2009. To facilitate comparison, we define three maingroups of actors at the firm level in the Russian economy – large, politicallyconnected companies; mid-size firms that expanded in the...

Steigende Kundenansprüche und zunehmender Margendruck führen dazu, dass das Klima invielen Branchen seit einigen Jahren immer rauer wird. So gehen 90% der in einer Studie befragtenUnternehmen davon aus, dass die Wettbewerbsintensität in den kommenden Jahrendeutlich steigen und der Kampf um...

Using data on 157 large companies in Poland and Hungary this paper employs Bayesianstructural equation modeling to examine interrelationships between corporategovernance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision-making,exporting and performance. It is found that...

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...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator ofvalue added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labourcosts for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration,linked to the flexibility of business administration...

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the productionsector, such as quality circles, learning groups (“Lernstatt”) and projectteams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic managementwith their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

The discipline of strategic management has the goal to better understand why companiessucceed based on a holistic, overarching perspective. However, until now the strategicmanagement literature has not provided a conceptually unifying framework that explicitlyintegrates the different dimensions...