Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new...

Einführung: Mitarbeiterorientierung durch menschengerechte Kooperation -- Außerökonomische Bedingungen wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs -- Das Unternehmensmodell – Elemente und Zusammenhänge -- Gegenstand, Vorgehensweisen und Methoden -- Sozialkapital, Gesundheit und Betriebsergebnis -- Folgerungen.

Social capital, Social trust, Crowding-out hypothesis, Welfare state, Social spending. - The crowding-out hypothesis asserts that the state development tends to erode social capital, that is voluntary, familial, communal and other interpersonal ties become weaker; people lose the sense of moral...

This paper analyzes an early modern German economy to test alternative theories about guilds. It finds little evidence to support recent hypotheses arguing that guilds corrected market failures relating to product quality, training, and innovation. But it finds that guilds were social networks...