IfM Bonn News

News & Updates | 21.01.2021 Effects of a lower income on the standard of living

Can households maintain their standards of living when self-employed household members experience income cuts? Dr. Stefan Schneck examined this question and placed the results in the context of the Corona crisis.

News & Updates | 13.01.2021 Influence of news on financial markets

How does financial news affect the development of currencies, stocks and bonds? In his cumulative doctoral thesis "The Impact of Brexit News and ECB's Announcements on Asset Prices: Theory, Empirical Findings and Policy Implicatons", Dr. Arthur Korus examined, among other things, the impact of …

Participation in external events | 15.12.2020 Managing the digital transformation

What opportunities do data-based business models offer for SMEs? What influence does the management style have on the implementation of digital transformation in companies?

News & Updates | 15.12.2020 Working Paper on Contextual Research

In the last years, contextualisation has become particularly influential in entrepreneurship research.

News & Updates | 08.12.2020 IfM researcher elected to editorial board

With the change of the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD) on January 1, 2021, Dr. Stefan Schneck begins his activities as member of the Editorial Review Board.

Participation in external events | 01.12.2020 Mittelstand and SME

Why are Mittelstand and SMEs not equal? How can the SME sector be covered statistically?

Participation in external events | 24.11.2020 Businesses during the first six month of Corona

Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, the Federal Government has tried to mitigate the economic consequences for the self-employed and their businesses with a variety of financial measures.

External publications | 20.11.2020 Silicon Valley as a model?

Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley is repeatedly praised in public as "a model". But how model-like are these companies really?

External publications | 19.11.2020 First aid in the Corona crisis

What were the challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the beginning of the Covid 19 crisis? What measures did the European countries take to support SMEs?

Participation in external events | 17.11.2020 Covid 19: Challenge and Opportunity

At the European SME Assembly 2020 "Building a sustainable and resilient future together", Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter, Prof. Dr. Ute Stephan, Prof. Dr. David B. Audretsch, Prof. Dr. Alfredo De Massis and Prof. Dr. Arnis Sauka discussed the impact of Covid 19 for small and medium-sized enterprises.

External publications | 17.11.2020 Family internal succession desired?!

Entrepreneurs prefer to hand over their life's work within the family. But how many family-owned companies really plan or realize this route of succession? What influences this decision?

Participation in external events | 04.11.2020 Research on female entrepreneurship

In the last few years, female entrepreneurship has been receiving extensive attention in entrepreneurship research. In her keynote speech at the online conference of Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter (IfM Bonn/University of Siegen) outlined the development in this field …

Participation in external events | 23.10.2020 Artificial intelligence in SMEs

How can research institutions, competence centres and universities support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the use of artificial intelligence?

External publications | 21.10.2020 Foreign nationals support the founding of NRW

In 2018, 39.2% of all commercial start-ups in NRW were founded by foreign nationals. In this way, they provided substantial support for the establishment of new businesses in North Rhine-Westphalia, as Dr. Rosemarie Kay and Dr. Se-bastian Nielen state in the study "Foreign nationals as founders in …

Awards | 20.10.2020 Further award for IfM President

Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter (IfM Bonn/University of Siegen) has been elected to the prestigious circle of 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellows.