Die Digitalisierung hat sich zu einer Herausforderung für den Mittelstand in vielen Bereichen entwickelt. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt die jüngste Expertenbefragung für das Zukunftspanel Mittelstand 2017. Neben der digitalen Transformation, die grundlegende strategische Maßnahmen erfordert,...

Policymakers rely on entrepreneurs to create jobs, provide incomes, innovate, pay taxes to support public revenues, create competition in industries, and much more. Due to its highly heterogeneous nature, the choice of entrepreneurship measures is critically important, impacting the diagnosis,...

We provide empirical evidence that uncertainty (rather than risk) and optimism are distinctive characteristics of high-impact entrepreneurial firms (recently listed firms) relative to old, incumbent firms. Based on this evidence, we construct an entrepreneurial entry predation model with...

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and their most prominent version, the blockchain, enable a new type of organization: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). DAOs consist of software code, mainly smart contracts, and the DAO members. Members keep governance tokens that grant property...

The nonpecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this paper, we study a population with varying...

Tajikistan's outlook for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains challenging as it continues to recover from economic downturn. The SME sector is small but steadily growing in terms of value addition and share of total employment, although access to finance remains poor and financial...

En tiempos modernos la competitividad es un desafío y oportunidad para las organizaciones. La globalización de los mercados y la introducción de las nuevas tecnologías en los nuevos modelos de negocios, las grandes empresas, y más las Pymes, requieren de estrategias que las impulsen...

This study examines the influence of organizational psychological capital on the performance of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) during crises. We argue that SMEs use their intangible resources to cope with difficult situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we investigate how...

Entrepreneurship shows regional differences through countries' history, economic environments, society and habits of individuals. Youngsters can think globally and have the highest skills to access information and know-how. This paper collects data from students' project work from different...

Demografischer Wandel, Globalisierung, Rohstoffknappheit, Klimawandel sowie eine sich beschleunigende technologische Entwicklung stellen die mittelständische Wirtschaft vor (neue) Herausforderungen. Eine Identifikation und Bewertung aktuell anstehender und zukünftiger Herausforderungen wurde...