External publications
All publications that IfM scientists have published externally are compiled here.
239 Results
External publication | 2024 Legitimacy of women entrepreneurs: forced to behave according to rules?
Legitimacy is essential to ensure the continued existence of companies. Depending on whether stakeholders consider entrepreneurs’ behavior to be appropriate, they decide whether to provide entrepreneurs with resources.
External publication | 2024 How women-led businesses fared in the Covid-19 pandemic
The authors investigate how female-led businesses were impaired by the Covid-19 pandemic, to what extent they used support measures, and what operational measures they took to counter the consequences of the pandemic.
External publication | 2024 The protection against social risks: a particular challenge for hybrid employees?
Hybrid self-employment - the parallel pursuit of self-employment and paid employment - has steadily increased over time.
External publication | 2024 Collaborative innovation processes: An opportunity for successful dual transformation in the SME sector
The framework conditions under which SMEs innovate have been undergoing serious changes for some time now: The digital and green transformation is changing products, production and communication processes. This change, coupled with a growing shortage of skilled labour, is increasingly encouraging and demanding the development of collaborative innovations.
External publication | 2024 India’s labour market challenges: Employability of young workforce from the perspective of supply and demand
This article contextualises the Indian labour market and vocational education system.
External publication | 2024 A gender-specific view on entrepreneurial recovery
Given the adversity of the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains an incomplete understanding of the gender disparities in the affectedness and recovery of micro-entrepreneurs from the crisis.
External publication | 2024 Silicon Valley entrepreneurship – Revisiting a popular dream
Silicon Valley this and Silicon Valley that have infiltrated the world. How did the image and mythology of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship (SVE) become so popular? How did it achieve and maintain such a high level of global flattery as is demonstrated every day by attempts to copy it?
External publication | 2024 Transformative R & I policy using the example of new technologies in agriculture and social innovations
The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed.
External publication | 2024 Sustainability of the Mittelstand - The CSRD as opportunity or challenge?
The EU Commission's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) provides for an expansion and standardization of the content of sustainability reporting as well as an expansion of the group of companies subject to reporting requirements.
External publication | 2024 Family business successions between desire and reality
Family business successions are commonly considered as one of the most critical events of any family business. Yet, despite extensive research, current evidence on the actual extent to which family business owners accomplish, adapt, or even abandon their initial succession plans is astonishingly still lacking.
External publication | 2024 Family business succession planning: Do outcomes depend on the predominant gender on the management board?
Research on family business succession stresses that the business’s economic situation strongly influences its degree of attractiveness to potential successors.
External publication | 2024 Do we need a legal form "Gesellschaft mit gebundenem Vermögen"?
There is currently a controversial debate in Germany about the proposal to introduce the GmbH form "Gesellschaft mit gebundenem Vermögen". In this article, the authors examine the positive effects that the initiators attribute to the planned legal form from an economic perspective.
External publication | 2024 Access to digital finance: Equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood.
External publication | 2023 A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms.
External publication | 2023 Analysing the bureaucratic burden in Germany – How can a noticeable reduc-tion in bureaucracy be achieved?
This study analyses the current bureaucratic burden on companies from a holistic, process-oriented (model) perspective – the so-called regulatory cycle. On the basis of a quantitative enterprise survey, an international comparison and a literature analysis, a phase-oriented, holistic action plan for a noticeable reduction of the bureaucratic burden is developed.
External publication | 2023 Analysis of the income situation of founders based on the German taxpayer panel
The report is dedicated to the development of the earnings of start-up cohorts. Even if many of the surviving start-ups achieve increasing profits in the following periods, a large number of founders do not manage to generate income of more than € 5,400 a year even in the 5th year after the start-up.
External publication | 2023 Number and structure of start-ups based on the Taxpayer Panel
The Federal Government is planning to introduce an obligation to provide for old age for the self-employed who have not yet been covered by any old-age insurance system if they have been self-employed for 2 years and their income from self-employment is above the marginal income for dependent employment.
External publication | 2023 Health Economy in the Digital Transformation
The healthcare industry comprises a complex system of stakeholders with different interests and needs. For the successful digital transformation of the healthcare industry, it is therefore essential to establish appropriate governance structures that take this complexity into account.
External publication | 2023 Does innovation shape the employment growth distribution? Evidence from East European firms
Employment growth is one of the most crucial indicators for economic policy. As the literature shows that only few fast-growing firms create the most new jobs, we apply recentered influence function regression to examine whether and how innovation activities shape the employment growth distribution.
External publication | 2023 The stagnating productivity of SMEs endangers Germany's prosperity
Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly lagging behind large companies in terms of their labor productivity - the "backbone" of the German economy is in danger of falling behind.