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The growth and failure of small and medium enterprises has been a topic of discussions world over among policymakers and researchers. This study was guided by the following objectives: to examine the contributions of small medium enterprises (SMEs), to determine the challenges affecting small...
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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The trajectory of new business applications and transitions to employer businesses differ markedly during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 recession. Both applications and transitions to employer startups decreased slowly but persistently in the post-Lehman crisis period of the Great...
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inefficiency. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on …
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Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …
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Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...
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Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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This Special Issue of the Chair of Public Management's publication series presents some results of a student research … seminar. Following Mintzberg's approach of management research, we posed the question, What do public managers really do? when …Dieses Sonderheft der Schriftenreihe des Lehrstuhls für Public Management präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse eines …
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: "symbiotische Karrieretandems", "fremdbestimmte Tandems", "Sparringspartner*innen im höheren Management" und "strategische Bündnisse … im höheren Management". … management" and "strategic alliances in senior management". …
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