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The Diffusion of New Production Concepts in Germany
In the past, German industry was synonymous with high-performance products, high quality, success in international markets, and consistent growth. Today, the matter is more complex: while some German companies...
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Interaction of Process and Product Innovation
The tap** of new markets with growth possibilities is often said to require the development and commercialization of innovative products (Utterback 1994, Freeman and Soete 1997). A strategy of innovation and...
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Worker Participation and Process Innovations
The involvement of workers in corporate supervision and management — through procedures for “codetermination” — is a well known, and much discussed, feature of the German industrial system. The German model of...
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Innovation versus Emigration - New Production Concepts and Transborder Relocation
An intense debate is now underway about the advantages — and especially the disadvantages — of Germany as a location for industry. In particular, criticism is leveled at Germany’s unfavorable framework conditi...
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Adoption of New Production Concepts in East Germany
After the economic and monetary union between East and West Germany in 1990, industrial firms in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were abruptly exposed to the production and trade requirements of a ...
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Implications for Modernization Strategies and Studies
In recent years, the process of innovation has moved very much to the forefront of concern in understanding and promoting industrial competitiveness, business performance, and economic growth and development. ...
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Introduction: Perspectives on German Industry and Its Competitiveness
Many Germans look back to the 1970s as a highpoint in their nation’s industrial development. The hallmark “Made in Germany” then signaled not only well-made products, but also a highly efficient industrial sys...
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Performance Impacts of New Production Concepts
In the mid-1990s, the economic situation of the German investment goods sector was problematic. Macroeconomic indicators showed that incoming order levels were weak, while major concerns had arisen over the se...
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New Production Concepts and Employment
With more than 4 million people out of work and an unemployment rate of over 11 percent in Germany, the creation of new jobs is now a major concern. One approach that is often suggested to lower unemployment i...
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Flexibility at Work
Germany has an extensive array of rules and norms that regulate employee working hours and business operating times, including when during the week and weekends that manufacturers are permitted to operate. The...
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Environmental Practices in Germany’s Investment Goods Sector
Environmental conservation has an important position in public discussion in Germany and has great significant in German politics, legislation, and regulation. Environmental laws and state funding incentives i...
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New Production Concepts and Service Orientation: The Case of Teleservice
Goods made in Germany can not compete primarily through low prices. German production input costs, particularly the expense of labor, are too high for that. Over the last few decades, German manufacturers have...
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Promotion of CIM in the New Länder
Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, companies in the new Länder of the former East Germany suddenly had to confront the cold waters of the market economy and the full convertibility of the old East...
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Neue Gründerzeit in Deutschland — Unternehmertum in der Telekommunikation
Ich bin Ihrer Einladung sehr gern gefolgt. Mein Terminplan ist gerade für solche Begegnungen durchaus offen genug, denn sie interessieren mich nicht nur in meiner Eigenschaft als Ministerpräsident eines Bundes...
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Unternehmensgründungen der Telekommunikation in Deutschland Eintrittsstrategien und Barrieren
Seit der vollständigen Liberalisierung des Deutschen Telekommunikationsmarktes ab dem 1.1.1998 wurden an über 200 Firmen Lizenzen für Sprachtelefondienste und Übertragungswege erteilt. Etwa ein Drittel dieser ...
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Orckit — a Technology Entrepreneur Sucessfully Competing with Multinational Telecom Vendors
Orckit was founded in 1990. We are a company devoted exclusively to DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, a technology which is now quite familiar but which only three years ago was relatively unheard of amongst th...
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Die technische Entwicklung und der Fortschritt der Medien sind eine Voraussetzung für den Erfolg eines Medienunternehmens: Letztendlich entscheidend sind jedoch die Inhalte
Guten Tag, meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren, Herr Professor, vielen Dank für die Vorstellung. Es ist mir eine Ehre, hier im Münchner Kreis sein zu dürfen. Und es ist mir eine Freude, Ihnen unsere Geschich...
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Chancen und Risiken des Venture Capital als langfristiges Finanzierungsinstrument zur Unternehmensentwicklung in der Zeit des schnellen technologischen Wandels
Meine Damen und Herren, wie es so schön heißt: Den letzten beißen die Hunde. Mir bleiben jetzt noch 7 Minuten. Wenn ich die Präsentation durchlaufen lasse, wird sie zum Film. Vielleicht kurz zu bmp. Ich möchte...
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Schlußworte
Meine Damen und Herren, ich möchte nur noch wenige Worte sagen. Spätestens heute haben wir gründlich gelernt, dass Information, Kommunikation und Medien mehr denn je eine unternehmerische Dimension besitzen, d...
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Begrüßung und Einführung
Meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren, ich freue mich, Sie zu dieser Fachkonferenz des Münchner Kreises mit dem sehr aktuellen und sehr weitreichendem Thema begrüßen zu können und dass Sie so zahlreich erschie...