Research Overview
The globalisation of services:
- Global production networks (GPNs) of various service trans-national corporations (TNCs)
- Business models, modes of entry and post-entry behaviour of various service TNCs
- Impact of service TNCs and their GPNs on economic development in host countries
- Interactions between service GPNs and various institutional contexts in host countries
The international tourism production system:
- History and development of the hotel industry
- Worldwide expansion, business models and post-entry behaviour of international hotel groups
- Impact of the hotel industry on economic development in host countries
- Interactions between international hotel groups and various institutional contexts in host countries
- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation of the international aviation industry
- Business models and global production networks of international airline groups
- Impact of airline groups on economic developmnent in host countries
- Interactions between international airline groups and various institutional contexts in host countries
Post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE):
- Political, economic and social aspects of post-communist transformations in CEE
- The emerging variety of post-communist capitalisms in CEE and their path-dependent nature
- The processes of (uneven) economic development in CEE after 1989
- The role of services in fostering post-communist transformations and economic development in CEE