Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...

For Kaldor (1972), economic growth is the resultant of a chain-reaction between increases in supply and increases in demand. In order to show the interest of this view, I represent this growth process by an entrepreneurial growth model based on the principle of effective demand. The aggregate...

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...