We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

Der Autor zeigt, wie Metaphern unser Denken über Organisationen bestimmen und unser Handeln in Unternehmen beeinflussen. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Theorien , auf deren Oberfläche sich die entscheidenden Metaphern von Organisationen gebildet haben. In einem Fallbeispiel erläutert...

Markttrends, Technik, Innovation - wie kann sich ein Unternehmen für Kommendes rüsten? Indem es eine wettbewerbsfähige Organisationsstruktur entwickelt, einführt und erfolgreich umsetzt. Der Leitfaden zeigt Kernfragen und Grundlagen eines zeitgemäe︢n Organisationsdesigns. Vor allem zeigt...

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...