[...]There are, of course, more traditional sources of privatesectorcapital for these markets. First among them is theCommunity Reinvestment Act. As we heard earlier, and asmany of us know firsthand, the act has had a dramatic effect interms of directing private-sector resources into urban...

Privatinvestoren sind eine wichtige Anlegergruppe auf den Finanzmärkten. In zahlreichen Arbeiten ist dokumentiert worden, daß private Anleger bestimmte Verhaltensweisen an den Tag legen, die die Annahme vollständiger Rationalität verletzen. Diese Verhaltensweisen wiederum können einen...

Sind deutsche Chefs gut aufgestellt, um den gesellschaftlichen Wandel menschlich zu gestalten, den uns der globale Wettbewerb als Hausaufgabe aufgegeben hat? Ein weltweiter Vergleich der Managementkulturen nährt Zweifel.

The paper studies why a corporation hopes to keep technological leadership. The answer is shown by a theoretical model in the perspective of technological transfer. The model consisting of two countries, each of which contains numerous corporations,has pointed out: restrained technological...

(...)The topic was not too narrowly defined: it included organizational virtualness and all the research activities and partical experiences that focus on organizational structure, behaviorial patterns and technological support of virtual organizations, as well as virtual organizations in a...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms.(...)

In the debate on globalization it is often argued that multinational corporations (MNCs) have gained increasing power due to their growth and due to new global or transnational structures and strategies.(...)

The paper documents and analyses the rise of a transnational transport and logistics industry within the European Union...