Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge andtechnological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gainaccess to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domesticrivals. We develop a theoretical...

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collectedand evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domesticR&D managers? We envision...

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the theoretical and the empirical level. The novelty of the empirical analysis, which is based on a panel of 27 OECD countries over the period 1982-2002, is to provide evidence of a...

This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals’ real investments ina high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysisshows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shiftingactivities of multinational...

It is commonly alleged that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the service sector haspositive consequences for the domestic labor market. This paper shows that this widelyaccepted view does not generally hold...

Financial constraints have been found to play an important role on various aspects of firmbehavior. Yet, their effects on firm survival have been largely neglected. We use a panel of9420 newly established UK firms over the period 1997-2002 to study the effects offinancial variables on firms´...

We consider the plant location decision of a multinational, which has the option to invest in a more or aless technologically advanced country. We find that in the absence of exporting by the local firms, themultinational will invest in the country lagging behind, unless the firms in that...

If one is going to use a framework like this, Hofstede´s is the most comprehensiveand validated. (Eckhardt 2002:93). Obiges Zitat widerspiegelt die Debatte um die Hofstedesche Kulturtheorie.So gilt die Studie zweifellos als die bislang umfassendste Untersuchung in derinterkulturellen...

Die bundesdeutsche Logistikbranche boomt und ist ein echter Jobmotor. Die Logistik ist nicht nur einer der größten Wirtschaftsbranchen in Deutschland und wird als Motor für Wachstum und Innovation gesehen. Sie führt damit auch zur Schaffung neuer, zukunftsfähiger Arbeitsplätze. Im Jahre...