This dissertation seeks to add to our understanding how the internationalization process of Chinese firms relates to the internationalization process of Western firms. The focus of this project was on the assumed competitive advantage for Chinese firms in relatively high-risk host countries. In...

This paper analyses the impacts of ever-larger ships on location choices for new container ports and examines when relocation of a port makes sense. Most ports are located close to cities, but have difficulties expanding. A number of new container ports have been built further away from urban...

Die neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken entwickeln sich zunehmend zu einem "Zukunftsmarkt Telekommunikation", der zwangsläufig wirtschaftliche, räumliche, gesellschaftliche und soziale Umstrukturierungen zur Folge haben wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Fragen nach der Bedeutung...

Verzichten Regierungen auf Umweltschutzmaßnahmen, um die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ihrer Industrie nicht zu gefährden oder eine Abwanderung von Unternehmen zu verhindern? Oder forciert genau umgekehrt eine rigide Umweltschutzpolitik die Innovationsfähigkeit der Unternehmen und...

Flooding events can affect businesses close to rivers, lakes or coasts. This paper provides a partial equilibrium model which helps to understand the optimal location choice for a firm in flood risk areas and its investment strategies. How often, when and how much are firms willing to invest in...

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...

This cahier provides an overview of the freedom of establishment, one of the four freedoms central to the European Union's single market. The book first contextualizes corporate mobility within a broader economic discussion on market access before turning to the private international law...

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the contributors explore the similar characteristics of these two borders, they also examine how the global economy circulates...

This paper uses a comprehensive, official firm-level dataset for German manufacturing firms to investigate the location decision of new firm activity in the German regional economy, differentiated by firm structure. The rich regional dimension of this dataset is investigated for the first time...

The design of the distribution system is a Strategie issue for almost every Company. The Problem of locating facilities and allocating customers Covers the core topics of distribution system design. Model formulations and Solution algorithms which address the issue vary widely in terms of...

The Capacitated Facility Location Problem (CFLP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem with applications in distribution and production planning. A variety of lower bounds based on Lagrangean relaxation and subgradient optimization has been proposed for this problem. However, in...

Sales force management decisions belong to the major issues considered in marketing research. Among others, the alignment of sales territories has been one of the main field of work for years. Recent results have reported a strong impact of the alignment of sales territories on profit, and,...

The sales force deployment problem is considered which arises in many selling organizations. As a solution a novel mixed-integer formulation is introduced which is specifically characterized by an infinite number of variables. A column generation approach is proposed to obtain upper and lower...