The importance of multinational companies (MNCs) in the UK economy is not inquestion. One way in which this is evident is that Britain is a major recipient offoreign direct investment (FDI) by MNCs, accounting for 8.7% of the inward stockof global FDI. In addition, large numbers of...

Budgets have long been the dominant instrument for management control. In recent years however, alternative approaches to management control such as the Balanced Scorecard have been launched. It has even been suggested that organisations should drop the budget and move “Beyond Budgeting”,...

Over the past decades terms such as regionalism, regionalization, 'regional multinationals', and 'liability of regional foreignness' have populated International Business and Global Strategy research. Notwithstanding their popularity, the definition of the term 'region' is ambiguous, which...

Themenstellung -- Grundlegende Konzepte -- Gruppenprozesse, -strukturen und -modelle -- Theoretische Einbettung der Konflikte und Synergien -- Empirische Untersuchung zu Konflikten und Synergien -- Empirische Modellbildung: Das MIPO-Modell -- Schlussbemerkungen.

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of micro-econometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...