About the Author

Patrick Siegfried, born 1967 in Kassel, studied business administration at the University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, at the University of Bradford/UK, at the University of Wroclaw/PL as well as at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management. As a research assistant at the WHL Graduate School of Business and Economics in Lahr he was involved in a research project of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. About this research project is this dissertation, which was successfully defended for the PhD degree at the University of Kaposvár/HU in January 2014.