Digital transformation increasingly requires activities located outside firm boundaries, for example via alliances with start-up companies. Despite this, German Mittelstand firms, primarily owned and managed by enterprising families and seen as role models of innovation, appear reluctant to...

Die Studie 'Deutschlands nächste Unternehmergeneration' ist ein langfristig angelegtes Forschungsprojekt, innerhalb dessen regelmäßig deutschlandweit umfassende Datenerhebungen vom Friedrichshafener Institut für Familienunternehmen

Der nächsten Unternehmergeneration fehlt es nicht an der familienunternehmerischen Grundhaltung, aber sie hat auch einige Sorgen. Die Studie der Stiftung Familienunternehmen "Deutschlands nächste Unternehmergeneration" wurde zum sechsten Mal erstellt vom Friedrichshafener Institut für...

In the last years, scholarly attention was on a steady rise leading to a significant increase in the number of papers addressing different technological and organizational aspects of digital transformation. In this paper, we consolidate existing findings which mainly stem from the literature of...

The need to economically identify rare subjects within large, poorly mapped search spaces is a frequently encountered problem for social scientists and managers. It is notoriously difficult, for example, to identify "the best new CEO for our company," or the "best three lead users to participate...

Lead users are proposed as a valuable resource for marketers in terms of the (1) development, (2) adoption, and (3) diffusion of new products. We present the first consumer study to provide evidence that the latter two suggestions are justified. First, we find that lead users demonstrate...