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• Internationalization Process of Russian Construction Industry: Inward Investments Perspective

Inward investments as the cornerstone of the entry mode choice are still considered a frontier issue within the field of internationalization - as judged from the academic interest as well as from the numerous articles published in scientific journals. Despite considerable progress in later years in formulation of theories, many weaknesses still exist within this field. A further development of theory is therefore needed. Nowadays emerging markets show the greatest activity in the field of internationalization, e.g the Russian market, which is considered by most potential entrants as a huge opportunity. The methods of entry and models of operations of international contractors in the Russian market, based on the investment decisions, are investigated in this paper.

.../Villeroy/Boch), construction instrument (Bosch/Hilti/Kress) have been successfully operating in t...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 14 Nr. 2, April 2009

• Globalizing Domestic Absorptive Capacities

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 benefit from these new opportunities. * We suggest that these capabilities depend upon the investments in absorptive capacity development, international experience as well as the munificence of the home market environment. We test these hypotheses empirically based on a survey of more than 2,200 German firms. * We find that the globalization of absorptive capacities is a combination of refining their development (most importantly through ambitious incentive systems), export experience and shortcomings of the domestic innovation environment. The importance of each individual factor var...

... changes (Szulanski 1996, Van den Bosch/Volberda/de Boer 1999). They allow firms to reinfo...

• Management International Review
• Band 48 Nr. 6, November 2008