Strategic management
"Strategic management" deals with management questions in general. Specifically, projects in this programme area analyse questions related to human resource management, financing, as well as innovation policies at the firm level.
8 Results
Enterprise management | 2022 Adapting to climate change: exploring the specific challenges for SMEs
The effects of climate change increasingly represent a challenge for companies concerning their business and value creation models. This is particularly true for SMEs, whose business models are often based on specialised products, target groups, and/or regions embedded in closely networked supply and value chains.
Enterprise management | 2022 The impact of SMEs' innovation activity on their economic development in times of crisis
Companies typically respond to an external shock like the COVID-19 pandemic by adjusting, including innovating. However, companies were affected to varying degrees and in different ways by the constraints imposed by the pandemic.
Enterprise management | 2022 SME Financing in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are predominantly financed from their own funds, followed by bank loans, and only then finance instruments such as trade credits, leasing, or factoring.
Enterprise management | 2021 Development of digitization among SMEs in the manufacturing sector (follow-up study)
The spread of digital value creation activities and the (internet-based) integration of all parties involved in the value creation process has gained considerable dynamism in recent years.
Enterprise management | 2020 Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Berufsausbildung in Kleinstbetrieben
Ältere Forschungsergebnisse zur Ausbildungsbeteiligung von Kleinstbetrieben zeigen deren besondere Schwierigkeiten bei der Besetzung von Ausbildungsstellen auf.
Enterprise management | 2020 FinTechs: Opportunities for the German Mittelstand
In recent years, investments in German FinTechs have increased continuously. The mostly young enterprises combine innovative technologies with financial services in the areas of financing, wealth management, payment transactions and insurance.
Enterprise management | 2019 Innovationsketten: Ein (neuer) Weg zur Innovation für mittelständische Unternehmen?!
Aktuelle Studien des IfM Bonn zeigen, dass mittelständische Unternehmen auf ganz unterschiedliche Art und Weise Innovationen generieren, dabei z.B. auch mit Start-ups kooperieren, und zunehmend Teil globaler Wertschöpfungsketten sind.
Enterprise management | 2018 Digitale Kompetenzen in der Führungsebene im Mittelstand
Die zunehmende Digitalisierung ist eine der größten Herausforderungen für den Mittelstand. Bisher wird darunter noch sehr oft eine rein technische Herangehensweise verstanden. Um jedoch die Digitalisierung erfolgreich umzusetzen, sind umfangreiche Anpassungen der Organisationsstruktur und ihre positive Gestaltung durch die Belegschaft erforderlich.