The author make use of the European Survey on Working Conditions to compare sole proprietors' working conditions and workloads. The survey covers more than 20.000 people in all forms of gainful employment in 15 EU countries. Sole proprietors are not "hands-off" entrepreneurs; rather, a high...

In diesem Kapitel wird dargestellt, wie die Sustainability Scorecard (SBSC) auf der Grundlage [...] der Balanced Scorecard für ein wertorientiertes Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement entwickelt und eingesetzt werden kann. Dies soll in drei Schritten geschehen. Zunächst werden der wertorientierte Ansatz...

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics, evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that increases (at...