This article deals with the importance of corporate citizenship for the attractiveness of a modern, competitive location of business activities. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that within internationally active business firms, departments with high value-added and departments with...

Business cycles in the U. S., Western Germany and Austria are highly interrelated. As a rule, the primary impact is originating in the U. S. and then transmitted to Western Germany with one ore more quarters' time lag. After at least another three months the repercussions from the German cycle...