Mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetwirtschaft stellt Russland noch immer eine sehr dynamische und komplexe Unternehmensumwelt dar, die sich in einem Zustand st?ndigen Wandels befindet. Die Charakterisierung dieser Umwelt erfolgt anhand von Erkenntnissen der interdisziplin?ren...

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Konzeptualisierung der Internationalit?t der Unternehmung. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet die Erkenntnis, dass einzelne existente (Mess)Konzepte der Komplexit?t des Konstruktes Internationalit?t der Unternehmung nicht gerecht werden. Der Operationalisierung und...

The established theories on the performance of the foreign firm in host country markets raise a puzzle: on the one hand, foreign ventures may be more likely to possess certain advantages that could help them outperform local competitors. On the other hand, foreign ventures suffer a disadvantage...

According to the World Investment Report 2004, the structure of Fmhas shifted towards services. Further, the composition of services FDI isalso changing from trade and finance to such industries as electricity, water ,telecommunications, storage and transportation. In the latter sector the...

To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between countries is large, while exports become more important...

We combine the resource curse literature with the literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to investigate two hypotheses, namely (i) natural resources wealth: countries with a comparative advantage in natural resources attract more M&As in natural resource intensive sectors and...

We build a dynamic general equilibrium model with 2 countries, horizontal and vertical multinational activity and endogenous domestic and foreign investment. It is found that horizontal multinational activity always leads to a complementary relationship between domestic and foreign investment....

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) model (incorporating strategic interaction between firms in a general equilibrium...

We examine the determinants of private equity returns using a newly constructed database of 7,500investments worldwide over forty years. The median investment IRR (PME) is 21% (1.3), gross offees. One in ten investments goes bankrupt, whereas one in four has an IRR above 50%. Only one ineight...

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...