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The organizational design of high-tech startups and product innovation
Grimpe, Christoph; Murmann, Martin; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2017
We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional hierarchical levels are often suspected to restrict innovative activities. However, founders’ capacities for information processing and resource allocation are usually strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011765013
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Matching of individuals for start-ups : test of the O-ring theory
Müller, Bettina (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793876
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team …, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339
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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013
is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784002
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726084
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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726124
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Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? : eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor) - 2008
Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650257
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Firm closure, financial losses and the consequences for an entrepreneurial restart
Metzger, Georg (contributor) - 2008
Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only a matter of willingness on the part of the entrepreneur but also of its feasibility. Regarding the feasibility of a restart, the aspect of capital acquisition might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777860
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Aus der Not geboren? : Besondere Merkmale und Determinanten von Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit
Niefert, Michaela (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283507
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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany
Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709