Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...

This is the first book to explain the expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) into a transition economy from a technology accumulation perspective. The author provides a theoretical alternative to accepted wisdom regarding technology transfer, and discusses the policy implications of this...

1. Introduction -- 2. Multinational Companies, Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Theoretical Framework -- 3. Research Methodology and Design -- 4. Survey Findings: Descriptive Analysis -- 5. Survey Findings: Econometric Analysis -- 6. Findings and Analysis of the Interviews -- 7. Conclusion

Einleitende Betrachtungen -- Idee eines kompetenzorientierten Managements von Logistiknetzwerken -- Bausteine interorganisationalen Lernens -- Chancen und Risiken interorganisationalen Lernens für die kompetenzorientierte Steuerung von Logistiknetzwerken -- Abschließende Betrachtungen.

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to...