Topics in corporate governance have been around in the literature almost for a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on the large and public company. While this research has improved our understanding of how large corporations are governed, corporate governance in small...

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is taking place. This shift is from the managed economy to the entrepreneurial economy. While politicians and policy makers have made a plea for guidance in the era of...

Do University policies make a difference? -- Do knowledge conditions make a difference? Investment and ownership in German industries -- Does the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship hold for regions? -- Do Locational Spillovers Pay? Empirical Evidence from German IPO Data --...