vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization … patterns beyond what natural advantages would suggest compared to 40 percent in West Germany. -- Entrepreneurship ; location …

out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …. -- Entrepreneurship ; Rapid firm growth ; Strategy ; Management ; West Germany ; East Germany …

We compare two leading regional innovation systems (RIS) in East Germany with two RIS in West Germany of about the same …

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …

influence on risk attitudes and opportunity recognition. We conduct a natural experiment based on Germany’s recent history and … compare individuals born and raised in the former socialist East Germany (GDR) with their West Germany (FRG) counterparts. Our … analysis confirms the expected difference in values between individuals from East and West Germany and also shows that these …

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …