Der Gesundheitssektor zählt mit rund 240 Mrd. € Umsatz (2003) und rund 4,2 Mio. Beschäftigten (2004/Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes) zu den größten und wachstumsstärksten Sektoren der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. Das deutsche Gesund-heitssystem wie die medizinischen Kompetenzen gelten...

Das gängige Bild als „Low-Tech“-Branche wird der tatsächlichen Innovationsstärke der Bauwirtschaft nicht gerecht.Die technische Innovationskraft der Wert-schöpfungskette ist, gemessen an den Patenten, deutlich erkennbar. Die deutsche Bauwirtschaft nimmt hier europaweit die...

The divergence between increasingly supranational financial marketson the one hand and still largely national supervisory structures onthe other gives rise to tensions which reduce the effectiveness ofthe supervision.(...)

Securing access to “lead markets” is generally regarded as a key driver for the increasing globalization of innovation since these are considered to be “early indicators” for emerging customer needs. Such markets, therefore, offer a good chance of uncertainty reduction for in the...

[...]I will begin with deregulation. Compared with the regulatedEuropean financial systems of the postwar period, mostEuropean countries have been liberalizing their financialservices sectors. This trend began in the mid-1960s andaccelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time,...

Various changes are emerging in the international financial arena which could challenge the West’s dominance in for example the global monetary system. In this latest addition in our special series of thinkpieces on global themes, Vanessa Rossi of Chatham House explores these changes....

Beginning with the important work of Murphyand Welch (1992), a great deal of recentresearch has attempted to document andexplain the dramatic changes in the wage distributionthat occurred during the 1980s (see also Katz andMurphy 1992). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages...

Global enterprise resource planning (ERP) programmes are usually initiated top‐down, butthe ubiquitous access to company process information leads to the empowerment of trainedemployees at all levels of the company. The success of current global ERP programmes dependson a wide range of...

United States wage performance has been disquieting.Between 1979 and 1993, realhourly compensation rose by just 5.5 percent.This poor average wage performancehas been associated with a dramatic increase in the dispersionof earnings: both in the returns to general characteristicssuch as...

Die Gesundheitswirtschaft ist bislang eine Branche,die im Großen und Ganzen durch nationale,z. T. sogar regionale Absatzmärkte gekennzeichnetist. Zwar sind einige Teilbereiche der Branche– v. a. Pharma und Medizintechnik – bereits heuteauf globale Märkte ausgerichtet, jedoch sind...