Decentralised finance, including crypto-asset markets and DeFi protocol activity, has been promoted as a tool to support the democratisation of finance. This report presents quantitative evidence from ASEAN economies that participation in decentralised finance markets has been largely driven by...

After a quick profile of Italian foreign direct investments since 1900 and a short review of the main explanations of the lagged multinational growth by Italian manufacturing companies, a quick glimpse of business histories is given to the only two still today living "old protagonists" (Pirelli,...

Durch die vorangeschrittene globale Verflechtung der Märkte hat sich auch das Umfeld für deutsche Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. Jedoch gehen damit nicht nur für Großkonzerne weitreichende Folgen und ein dringender Handlungsbedarf einher. Gerade kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU)...

Mittelstand – Motor und Zukunft der deutschen Wirtschaft Deutschland verfügt über ein sehr bedeutendes Unternehmenssegment, das international als „Asset“ der deutschen Wirtschaft bewundert wird: den Mittelstand. Mittelständische Unternehmen haben wesentlich dazu beigetragen, dass...

Introducing the Born Transnational Firm as a Distinct Type of International Start-Up -- Corporate Flexibility and its Development in the Born Transnational Firm -- Social Capital and its Contribution to Corporate Flexibility of the Born Transnational Firm.

Although Internet is widely acknowledged to facilitate the rapid internationalization of born global firms (BGs), it is less known how such firms actually go about it. The current chapter specifically explores Internet-enabled internationalization (IEI) in the context of BGs. Based on...

This book, the fourth volume in the McGill International Entrepreneurship series, brings together 27 top scholars to explore the structural complexities, evolving relations and dynamic forces that are shaping a new system of multi-polar, multi-level international business relations. It examines...

The “born global” phenomenon of hi-tech small and medium size enterprises (HSMEs) has been explored over the past 15 years. Until today, too little attention has been paid to intellectual property (IP) in knowledge-related processes, and the business models of HSMEs in their market...