Can bombs and broadcasts instigate resistance against a foreign regime? In this paper, we examine the canonical case of bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows that air power and the airwaves indeed undermined...

Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Untersuchung des Stellenwertes und der Bedeutung von Innova-tionsnetzwerken bei der Gründungsentscheidung und nach erfolgtem Markteintritt. Für Unterneh-mensgründungen aus Wirtschaftszweigen mit hoher Innovationsintensität werden die Implikationen, die aus...

Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other...

Established theories in international business come to different conclusions when specifically applied to the analysis of the international activities of start-up companies in high-technology industries. Using a new dataset of 495 British and German start-ups operating in high-technology...