ifo Schnelldienst 15/2019: Global and Hidden Champions

Global and Hidden Champions – Companies Change the World
Is State Regulation Possible?

Again and again, individual companies led the technological change and became world market leaders. Today, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are companies that dominate technological development and set global standards. This threatens to turn them into quasi-monopolies, which challenges regulation at national and international level in order to restrict market power, secure competition and guarantee socio-political framework conditions. This topic was discussed at a scientific conference.

With contributions by 

• Irene Bertschek, The Digital Economy and the New World Market Leaders
• Franz Josef Pschierer, Business and Regulation in the Globalized World
• Michael Grömling, Industrial Structural Change in the Age of Digitalization
• Markus Taube, East Asia's Up-and-Coming World Market Leaders: State-Oriented Colossuses, Innovative Start-ups and Globally Oriented Guerrilla Entrepreneurs
• Henning Klodt, What Explains and Stops the Disintegration of the Global Trade Order?