Despite the emergence of new production systems, Europeanization and economic internationalization, the national arrangements of wage bargaining systems have not been eroded. The paper highlights the factors that counteract the pressures for a straightforward decentralization with reference to...

The debate about measuring the degree of internationalization of firms has not solved the question about the usefulness of having one index on the internationalization of firms. This article argues in favour of constructing indices, if the components of those are theoretically and empirically...

Anhand eines Samples der 100 größten deutschen Unternehmen wird die Frage diskutiert, wie sich der Internationalisierungsgrad von Unternehmen messen läßt. Es wird vorgeschlagen, zwischen zwei Internationalisierungsdimensionen zu unterscheiden: Einer realwirtschaftlichen und einer...