Im Kontext des Strategischen Managements der Unternehmung sind Bündel abstrakter Maßnahmen zur Steuerung und Führung von und in Systemen zu entwickeln sowie anzuwenden, die erst zu späteren Zeitpunkten konkretisiert und ausdifferenziert werden. Solche Maßnahmenbündel nennen wir Strategien....

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...

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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 ceteris paribus...