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IfM-Materialien | 2016 Attractiveness of young companies for skilled workers
The attractiveness of an employer is not influenced by the age of the company. Of the young companies that have been looking for skilled workers in the past five years, more than half had difficulties in recruiting skilled workers.
Working Papers | 2016 Crucial Skills for the Entrepreneurial Success of Fine Artists
This article aims to define crucial skills for the entrepreneurial success of working fine artists as these skills have not yet been clearly identified for this professional group.
External publication | 2016 Keeping It in The Family: Financial Rewards in Family Firms
Income in entrepreneurial families is characterized by uncertainty regarding the amount and timing of income. In addition, they can be attributed to both the business and the family and cannot be fully recorded, as they include both cash assets and the goods and services that are consumed.
External publication | 2016 SME, medium-sized business, family business: A clarification
It is not the size of a company that determines whether it belongs to a medium-sized company or not.
External publication | 2016 Family Business and Regional Science: Bridging the gap
The paper examines not only the regional role of family enterprises in terms of what family enterprises contribute to regional economic development ...
IfM-Materialien | 2016 Financing structures and strategies for SMEs
The financing environment SMEs is changing. The changes in the economic environment and the associated low interest rate policy as well as the Basel regulations show a clear influence on the financing structures of SMEs.
External publication | 2016 BDI/PwC Mittelstandspanel - autumn 2015
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 22nd time in autumn 2015 to assess the economic situation and topics relevant to daily politics and business management.
External publication | 2015 Selbstständigen-Monitor 2014: Self-employed in Germany 2011 to 2014
This report examines the development of the self-employed and start-ups in Germany in the period 2011 to 2014 on the basis of the microcensus. The total number of self-employed fell from 5,011,000 to 4,947,000 in the period under review.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Significance of digitization in medium-sized businesses
The survey of predominantly medium-sized companies shows that they attach great importance to digitization for their own company. For internationally active companies, the significance is even greater.
Facts and figures | 2015 Business start-ups by foreign citizens
Foreigners have increasingly influenced the process of business start-ups in both Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia between 2004 and 2014. Foreign founders have played a particularly important role in the commercial sector.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Business Start-ups and Crowd Invest
Crowd investing in Germany has been a new financing method available to innovative growth companies since 2011. Here, the mostly young companies try to address a broad mass of private investors through a targeted public call.
External publication | 2015 Context, Process and Gender in Entrepreneurship
The book places special emphasis on the behavior of individuals and groups in different contexts. At the same time it looks at individuals and structural factors that shape entrepreneurial activities and small business.
External publication | 2015 Researching Trust in Different Cultures
Trust is not an "objective" phenomenon that can be easily measured and whose understanding is identical in all cultures and states. The understanding and meaning of the term "trust" is rather related to the respective society and is a context-dependent phenomenon that poses problems for measurement and empirical analysis.
External publication | 2015 Italy – Key Issues and Policies
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the structure and performance of SME and entrepreneurship activity in Italy, the business environment and framework conditions for SMEs and entrepreneurship, the strategic framework and delivery arrangements for policy, national SME and entrepreneurship programmes and the local dimension of the policy.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Economic policy implications of start-up research
Start-ups are often described as a driving force for economic development and employment growth. Promoting start-ups is a permanent task of economic policy. However, the number of start-ups in Germany is declining or stagnating.
External publication | 2015 CSR: Opportunities and risks
As resources become scarcer, the interest of politics and research has recently focused increasingly on new concepts of economic action. Behind this are catchwords such as green economy and entrepreneurs with social and societal responsibility.
External publication | 2014 The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship
Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us.
External publication | 2014 Demo offensive - Using demographic change offensively for medium-sized businesses
The effects of demographic change require a changed work and trust culture as well as innovative personnel and organizational management in small and medium-sized companies.
Working Papers | 2014 Sustainable Management and Performance in SMEs: A French Case Study
Nowadays, sustainable management seems more likely to be a guarantee of competitiveness for companies, regardless of their size.
IfM-Materialien | 2014 Zukunftspanel Mittelstand - A survey of experts on the challenges facing medium-sized businesses
Demographic change, globalization, scarcity of raw materials, climate change and accelerating technological development present (new) challenges for small and medium-sized businesses. An identification and assessment of current and future challenges was carried out with the help of the newly launched Future Panel for SMEs, an internet-based expert survey of SME policy, business and SME research.