Traditionell wird das Thema Internationalisierung mit großen Unternehmen in Verbindung gebracht. Zunehmend sind es aber vor allem junge innovative Unternehmen, die in kurzer Zeit eine weltweite Marktpräsenz aufbauen. Dabei spricht man häufig von „Born Globals“. Michael Pock analysiert...

Polina Grill analysiert die Bedeutung strategisch wertvoller Ressourcen für erfolgreiche Mergers & Acquisitions-Entscheidungen. Dabei klärt sie anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung die Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen Mergers & Acquisitions aus ressourcenbasierter Perspektive wertstiftend...

In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory...

Firms of all sizes increasingly face the need to participate in global innovation cooperation. Yet, the global dimension adds another layer of complexity to open innovation processes. Juliane Hartig develops a framework for different forms of distance and discusses their impact and partial...

This research examines the differential impact of the importance of internally and externally sourced information and knowledge and their relationship to absorptive capacity and firm performance. In addition, this analysis deals directly with the unobservable heterogeneity amongst firms that is...

This chapter provides a logical extension to the understanding of firm-specific advantages and disadvantages and the enabling role of existing and emerging country-specific advantages relevant to the process of Chinese firm internationalization. Its longitudinal perspective considers the...

As the chapters in this volume emphasize, the access to local resources in a given host country is not a free-for-all. Although the LOF has traditionally been understood as a phenomenon related to firms' performance in local markets, implicitly evoking a market-seeking motivation for entry, it...

There has been a growing interest in the field of strategic management to understand the relationship between the organizational capabilities of firms and (a) the direction of strategies pursued and (b) the impact on competitive performance. Much of this literature has been influenced by the...