Die japanische Wirtschaft konnte bis zu Beginn der 90er Jahre auf ein nahezu ungebremstes Wachstum über die Nachkriegszeit verweisen, und noch immer sucht die Wissenschaft nach Erklärungen dafür. Dieses Paper versucht, an die vorhandene Literatur anzuschließen. Es geht von der Hypothese aus,...

Firms in the European chemical industry have been among the most successful firms world wide. However, they have had to undertake severe restucturing in order to maintain their market position. These efforts focused in particular on strengthening their innovative capability as product and...

In this paper we investigate how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of the information superhighway and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from...

This paper analyzes the effects of state aids in East Germany on European competition. We first discuss the specificity of post-socialist industrial restructuring in East Germany, which consisted of the enterprization of socialist combines into capitalist enterprises. Second, we review the...

Does geographic region or industry differences matter more in determining the likelihood of survival ? To answer this question, we compare the exit rates of new business firms for two German cities across a broad range of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors. Based on all business firms...

Research and Development Joint Ventures are based on cooperative agreements where firms share the costs and results of a particular research project. While theoretical analysis of research joint ventures on profits, R&D intensity, output and prices is more developed in the existing literature,...

Gegenstand dieses Aufsatzes ist es, Forschungshypothesen zur Firmenselektion und zur industriellen Entwicklung aus der industrieökonomischen Theorie, sowie den theoretischen Ansatz der Organisationsökologie zu testen. Der empirischen Untersuchung liegt eine Stichprobe aus der Gewerbemeldedatei...

In this paper we examine debates concerned with national models of industrial organisation. One school of thought has argued that distinct national models, or business systems are a prevelent and enduring paradigm. Critiques of such an approach argue that common global competitive pressures will...

Deregulation of financial systems, internationalisation of financial markets and globalisation of product markets have led to considerable changes in the institutional and economic environment of banks and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper we examine the impact of these...

Trotz der Internationalisierung der Finanzmärkte variieren in Deutschland und Frankreich die Beziehungen zwischen Kreditinstituten und kleinen bzw. mittelständischen Unternehmen (KMU). Während in Deutschland das 'Hausbanksystem' mit längerfristigen Beziehungen zwischen Banken und KMU...