1159 Results
External publication | 2014 Score with intangible incentives
Classic incentives are no longer sufficient to attract and retain employees in the long term. Intangible incentives that increase employee motivation are also becoming increasingly important.
IfM-Materialien | 2014 Concepts and effects of sustainable entrepreneurship
Corporate sustainability management aims at the responsible use of resources and the appropriate design of internal processes. Companies that combine sustainable management with strategic goals and go beyond the legal requirements and mere philanthropy use the instruments of stakeholder management and corporate compliance.
External publication | 2014 Medium-sized businesses in global competition
Foreign trade is of extraordinary importance for a developed economy like Germany. Growth and employment depend to a considerable extent on the foreign trade activities of companies in Germany.
IfM-Materialien | 2014 Gender, innovation and business development
Research has repeatedly found that women in general and female entrepreneurs in particular are less innovative than their male counterparts. This is often associated with a weaker business performance of female-managed companies.
External publication | 2014 From idea to publication: managing the research process
IfM-Materialien | 2014 Small and medium-sized enterprises in the information and communications industry in North Rhine-Westphalia
This study examines the ICT sector in North Rhine-Westphalia using special evaluations of official statistics from the VAT panel and data from a company survey. This state is proving to be a location with a largely prosperous ICT company base.
External publication | 2014 Bureaucratic costs for small and medium-sized enterprises
The smaller a company is, the more time is needed to fulfill bureaucratic tasks. From an economic point of view, however, it is important to create positive conditions for every size of company.
Facts and figures | 2013 Company successions in Germany 2014 to 2018
Due to a lack of official statistics, the IfM Bonn has been estimating the number of companies in Germany that are about to be handed over since the mid-1990s.
IfM-Materialien | 2013 Degree of internationalization of SMEs. Results of a company survey
Between 2009 and 2011, around 1.3 million companies from Germany, 99% of which are SMEs, were internationally active. This means that about 37% of all companies had direct foreign contacts (when indirect forms of contact are taken into account: 44%).
Facts and figures | 2013 Foreign trade activities of small and medium-sized enterprises: Information possibilities of official statistics
Official statistics record the foreign trade activities of German companies incompletely, both in terms of the various forms of foreign involvement and their volumes.
IfM-Materialien | 2013 Prosperity effects of the founding process
The study analyzes the wealth effects of start-ups using data from the VAT panel. By means of a cohort analysis, the inventory of start-ups, turnover, intermediate consumption and value added as well as employment are examined.
External publication | 2013 BDI Mittelstandspanel: Results of the online survey of SMEs - Autumn 2013
As part of a long-term study on industrial SMEs in Germany, the IfM Bonn surveyed a fixed group of industrial companies for the 18th time in autumn 2013 on their assessment of the economic situation and on topics relevant to daily politics and business management.
Facts and figures | 2013 Foreign trade activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in the light of official statistics
International trade in goods and services is of great importance for German SMEs. Exports and imports have tended to increase over the last decade, as has the number of internationally active companies.
IfM-Materialien | 2013 Innovation activities of family businesses
Family businesses are just as innovative as non-family businesses. However, there are systematic differences with regard to the drivers of innovation: One such driver is the size of the company. It has been shown that smaller family businesses have relatively large innovation advantages.
External publication | 2013 The largest family businesses - 4th key figures update
As part of the study series "The largest family businesses in Germany", the IfM Bonn analyzed the balance sheet and P&L data of family businesses with annual sales of 50 million euros or more in the fall of 2013.
External publication | 2013 Determinants of Business Insolvencies During Economic Growth and Recession in Latvia
Apart from reasons that influence insolvencies even in well-established market economies, such as company size and age, education, previous management experience and access to finance, specific environmental conditions play an important role in insolvencies of companies in transition economies. These include illegal and unethical behavior.
Facts and figures | 2013 Freelance business start-ups in Germany in 2012
On the basis of data from the tax office, the number of start-ups in the liberal professions was determined approximately for the first time. In 2012, about 82,000 start-ups were registered by freelancers.
External publication | 2013 Dynamics in ICT cooperation networks in selected German ICT Clusters
Cooperations can be a sensible corporate strategy for companies in the innovation process to diversify costs and risks. In regional economics, it is assumed that the number of regional cooperations increases through regional clustering.
External publication | 2013 Reenacting Contextual Boundaries-Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Challenging Environments
The essay shows that temporal, historical, socio-spatial and institutional contexts not only influence and limit entrepreneurial behavior, but also give freedom of action.
External publication | 2013 Nonlinear evaluation of status and signal effects
The paper deals with the relative wage position of employees and examines whether a high status increases individual satisfaction or whether a lack of promotion opportunities reduces satisfaction.