We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

This paper reflects upon the way that we balanced design and development in three specific case projects in order to contribute to creating and accumulating knowledge that is both relevant to practitioners and academics. More specifically, it is shown how learning within one project was used to...

Der Autor zeigt, wie Metaphern unser Denken über Organisationen bestimmen und unser Handeln in Unternehmen beeinflussen. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Theorien , auf deren Oberfläche sich die entscheidenden Metaphern von Organisationen gebildet haben. In einem Fallbeispiel erläutert...

Markttrends, Technik, Innovation - wie kann sich ein Unternehmen für Kommendes rüsten? Indem es eine wettbewerbsfähige Organisationsstruktur entwickelt, einführt und erfolgreich umsetzt. Der Leitfaden zeigt Kernfragen und Grundlagen eines zeitgemäe︢n Organisationsdesigns. Vor allem zeigt...

This paper analyses the participation of firms without GHG emission liabilities as technology providers in CDM and JI projects, the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. It argues that the motivations for those firms to engaging in CDM and JI projects is based on market stimuli beyond...

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...