Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019
Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate … in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's economic future. We therefore ask whether the Mittelstand actually …