Zielvereinbarungssysteme sind das wichtigste Führungsinstrument überhaupt. Systematisch praktiziert, ist die Steuerung des Mitarbeiterverhaltens über Ziele in jeder Organisation - unabhängig von Gröe︢ und Branche - ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor. In der vorliegenden zweiten Auflage wurden...

An analysis of a large panel data set on Israeli industrial firms finds that most of the growth in aggregate productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which will exit in the future have lower productivity...

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and early joiners. We investigate the idea that the...

We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...