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The pulse of liability of foreignness : dynamic legitimacy and experiences effects in the German car market

Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

Globalization has provided many companies with new opportunities for growth and efficiency. This requires them to operate successfully across cultural and social borders. These can be stumbling blocks to internationalization and have been found to cause frequent errors and delays for...

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There's no place like home : a strategic framework to overcome liability of foreignness in the German car market

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); Zimmermann, Jörg (contributor) - 2005

Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …

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Scrapping subsidies during the financial crisis : evidence from Europe

Leheyda, Nina; Verboven, Frank - 2013

We study the effects of the car scrapping subsidies in Europe during the financial crisis. We make use of a rich data set of all car models sold in nine European countries, observed at a monthly level during 2005-2011.We employ a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the fact that...

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Incumbents' responses to innovative entrants : a multi-country dynamic analysis

Diekhof, Josefine; Cantner, Uwe - 2017

The influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered important for technological change. We analyze this influence for the global transition towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs). Our results indicate that entrants' ATV-related knowledge accumulation stimulates average...

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Occupational and locational substitution : measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility

Aldashev, Alisher - 2009

regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …

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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen : eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland

Engel, Dirk - 1999

Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...

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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001

This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...

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Das Wachstum junger Unternehmen : eine Bestandsaufnahme 10 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung

Almus, Matthias - 2001

Unternehmensgründungen in Deutschland leistet. Aber auch andere unternehmens- und unternehmerbezogene sowie unternehmensexterne Faktoren …

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Minimum wages and competition : the case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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