271 Results
External publication | 2012 On the influence of owner management on the works council-manager relationship - a theoretical and empirical analysis in medium-sized companies
Whether a company is owner-managed or not is of decisive importance for the existence of a works council. The stewardship theory and the principal-agent theory show different effects of owner-management in this respect.
External publication | 2012 BDI panel of medium-sized businesses - spring 2012
As part of a long-term study on medium-sized industrial companies in Germany, the IfM Bonn surveyed a fixed group of industrial companies for the 15th time in spring 2012 to assess the economic situation and topics relevant to daily politics and business management.
External publication | 2012 German Apprenticeship System
On behalf of the European Commission, the European Network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR), of which IfM Bonn is a German partner, has prepared a comparative analysis of the vocational training systems in nine member states of the European Union (D, DK, E, EST, F, NL, PL, SK, UK).
External publication | 2012 SMEs and demographic change
The currently observed rapid aging and shrinking of the population poses special challenges for companies.
External publication | 2012 Economic results of insolvency proceedings
In 1999, the insolvency law was reformed with the aim, among other things, of increasing the satisfaction of the creditors' outstanding claims and more corporate restructurings.
External publication | 2012 Freelance business start-ups in Germany
Due to a lack of suitable data, it has not yet been possible to quantify the number of start-ups in the liberal professions.
External publication | 2012 On the reform of the insolvency law in the area of residual debt discharge according to the government draft
According to Creditreform, around 6.4 million citizens in Germany were considered to be over-indebted in 2011. Over-indebted persons, both consumers and self-employed persons, can settle their old debts by taking legal action.
External publication | 2011 The generation change in the middle class in the demographic change
Demographic change is one of the most important social challenges of our time. Society, business and politics must adapt to it. The changes it entails have been studied and discussed in a variety of ways for several years.
External publication | 2011 Saxon middle class report 2009/2010 - The development of the Saxon middle class
The SME Report provides a multitude of figures and statistics, thus making it possible to understand the development of the SME economy in the Free State of Saxony, to evaluate the current status and future prospects.
External publication | 2011 Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This comparative study examines for the first time the decline in collective bargaining coverage in the two European countries in which this development has proved to be the strongest: Germany and Great Britain.
External publication | 2011 Contextualization Entrepreneurship - Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward
In entrepreneurship research, it is increasingly recognized that economic behavior must be considered within the historical, institutional, spatial and social context, since this also determines the possibilities and limits of individual action.
External publication | 2011 BDI medium-sized companies panel - spring 2011
As part of a long-term study on medium-sized industrial companies in Germany, the IfM Bonn surveyed a fixed group of industrial companies for the 13th time in spring 2011 to assess the economic situation and topics relevant to daily politics and business management.
External publication | 2011 Handbook of Research on Enterprise Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
The contributions in this handbook examine the importance of government action and policy guidelines for the development of entrepreneurship and small businesses in central and (southeast) European countries.
External publication | 2011 Solo self-employed in insolvency - between stigmatization and new start
Both business start-ups and liquidations have declined after 2005. This development can be attributed in part to the good economic situation since 2005 and the change in the subsidies for start-ups from unemployment.
External publication | 2011 The Acceptance of Earnings Losses After Voluntary Mobility, Economics – The Open-Access
Most economic theory rules out changes towards lower wages, since these are usually limited to wage or income maximization. For this reason, little is known so far about whether job changers also accept wage deductions in the case of a voluntary change of employer.
External publication | 2011 Short-Time work in German Firms
As a result of the economic crisis in 2008/2009, Germany experienced a relatively small increase in unemployment compared to other OECD countries. An important instrument for avoiding redundancies during the crisis was the use of short-time working.
External publication | 2011 Risk provisioning still not a matter of course
The article summarizes the research results of the IfM Bonn on unplanned succession and shows that risk provision for this type of succession is still not a matter of course in family businesses.
External publication | 2011 The largest family businesses - spring 2011
Within the framework of the study series "The largest family-owned companies in Germany", the IfM Bonn has for the first time in spring 2011 gathered the opinion of the largest family-owned companies on the economic situation and current topics.
External publication | 2011 The generation change in the middle class in demographic change
The number of people aged between 30 and 50 years will decrease by about 15% between 2010 and 2020. Since company successors have so far mainly come from this age group, it is questionable whether there will be enough people in the future who will be interested in taking over medium-sized companies.
External publication | 2010 BDI medium-sized companies panel - autumn 2010
As part of a long-term study on medium-sized industrial companies in Germany, the IfM Bonn surveyed a fixed group of industrial companies for the 12th time in autumn 2010 to assess the economic situation and topics relevant to daily politics and business management.