The International Business Environment (IBE) is argued to be the essential context for international business (IB) studies and the distinguishing factor from other management studies, and from studies of large scale enterprises. In this paper we argue for a greater environmental focus and...

Examines the formation process of international new ventures (INVs)--i.e., firms that are international from the time of their formation. It is discovered that none of the existing theories from the field of international business explain the formation process because they focus on firm-level...

We consider a model with a competitive risk-averse exporting firm who faces uncertain exchange rates in a multiperiod analysis. The capital stock (or fixed input) has to be determined at the outset while the variable input (labor) is chosen optimally at the beginning of each period, but before...

Praxisorientiert und bewährt - die umfassende Einführung in die Grundlagen des Außenhandels.Von den Erscheinungsformen des Außenhandels über Transportwesen, Finanzierung, Recht und Durchführung bis hin zu den Außenhandelsrisiken stellt dieses bewährte Lehrbuch alle wichtigen Teilgebiete...