Promising innovation impulses originate increasingly from customers, suppliers or competitors outside of a firm’s traditional home market. We investigate how firms can adjust their absorptive capacities to…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2008
Graduates and researchers from public research institutions contribute through various channels to the transfer and diffusion of new knowledge, one of which is the start-up of their own enterprises. The goal of…
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2008
Recent literature has emphasized several motivations behind mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Firm acquisitions have been shown to serve as a way to gain access to international markets, technological assets,…
Immer häufiger zeigt sich, dass die Effekte der Globalisierung keine Einbahnstraßen im Transfer von Gütern, Dienstleistungen und Kapital von den entwickelten hin zu sich entwickelnden Nationen sind. Durch die…
