[...]Die Dokumentation soll Inhalt und Ablauf des Wettbewerbs einer breiten Öffentlichkeitzugänglich machen. Auf diese Weise möchte das IfM Bonn dazu beitragen, beispielhafteInitiativen und Praxismodelle überregional bekannt zu machen.[...]

Die Unternehmensfluktuation umfasst sowohl Markteintritte als auch Marktaustrittevon Unternehmen. Insbesondere Markteintritten neuer Unternehmen kommt einewichtige Funktion im Wachstums- und Erneuerungsprozess einer Volkswirtschaft zu.[...]<br<

This paper questions the stereotypical image of migrant-led companies as being less successful than native-led businesses. While facing similar framework conditions, migrant-led businesses are supposed to differ from native-led businesses in terms of their social capital endowment. In its...

This study analyses how established SMEs respond to potentially disruptive inno-vations and business models in the course of increasing digitization. Drawing on the strategic entrepreneurship approach we argue that SMEs showing strategic entrepreneurial behaviour are more likely to respond to...

Restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have affected and continue to affect the operations of entrepreneurs. A wide range of support measures were designed to mitigate their consequences. This paper traces the economic development in the various sectors and provides an overview of...

The decision to become an entrepreneur does not only have economic determinants. Using a unique data set of individuals who visited business start-up exhibitions and applying logit and probit techniques we show that entrepreneurial self-perception has a strong impact on entrepreneurial activity...

This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at a balanced set of different skills (academic or...