Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Historische, politische und normativ-rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen -- Etappen der Investitionsprojekte in Russland -- Voraussetzungen und Inhalte der Projektierungstätigkeit in Russland -- Konformitätsbewertung in der Eurasischen Wirtschaftsunion -- Inbetriebnahme als komplexes Zusammenspiel...

Hortense Tarrade analyses over 200,000 venture capital (VC) investments over the past 20 years to understand the investors' motivation to select national or foreign companies into their portfolio. She compares the sensitivity of US-based, non-US and German VC firms to the availability of local...

This is the first book to explain the expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) into a transition economy from a technology accumulation perspective. The author provides a theoretical alternative to accepted wisdom regarding technology transfer, and discusses the policy implications of this...

Talks about the relationship between FDI and economic growth with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe countries. With the help of modern panel data econometrics, this book carries out empirical evidence of growth enhancing effect of FDI in the transition countries, and explains for...

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...