This paper investigates the employment growth of small and medium-sized firms that survived the transformation process of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We find that firms founded in the later period of the GDR’s existence have especially low growth prospects, even 10 years after German...

Dieser Artikel untersucht zentrale Einflussfaktoren der Selbständigkeit von Tochterunternehmen anhand eines Samples von 72 italienischen Tochtergesellschaften (Klein- und Mittelunternehmen) in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß die Größe des Tochterunternehmens, das...

During the past, the evaluation of the chances of economic transformation and development of Eastern Europe was largely shaped by the view on the modernization and organizational restructuring of large enterprises/combines. Various scholars were sceptical how far these could contribute to a...