Purpose This research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on tourism industry revenues in Spain. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the Bureau van Dijk's...

Economic and ecological incentives drive the recycling of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles in Europe. As a pretreatment process step, this includes the disassembly. However, the exact choice of location for a disassembly plant represents a complex strategic decision...

This study investigates factors shaping FDI inflows in the MENA region from 1996 to 2021, employing static and dynamic panel data models. A composite institutional quality index, created via Principal Component Analysis, reveals a positive long-term effect on FDI. However, voice and...

While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach...

For several decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have offshored their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries to achieve significant productivity gains. However, changes in the relative competitiveness of countries, social effects of deindustrialization in advanced economies and the...

Objective: The objective of the article was to identify how various forms of information distortion influence foreign direct investment (FDI) location choices and location attractiveness perception. We focused on geopolitical factors that have been known to be an antecedent for FDI location...

Zusätzliche Investitionen von 57 Milliarden Euro würden bis 2033 entstehen, wenn die Körperschaftsteuer in Deutschland in fünf Schritten um insgesamt fünf Prozentpunkte gesenkt würde. Eine Simulation durch das IW Köln identifiziert auch Gewinne für die Arbeitnehmer.