IfM Bonn News

Press release | 04.03.2022 Only every fifth family business led by a female boss

Just under 600,000 of the 3.2 million family businesses in Germany are run by women. This is about every fifth family business. Compared to the number of women in the workforce (46.7%), women-led family businesses are therefore significantly underrepresented.

External publications | 03.03.2022 Number of upcoming handovers increases

Comparing succession estimates in 2018 to early 2022, the number of businesses that search for a successor increased.

Participation in external events | 22.02.2022 IfM-Researcher at EBES

How strong is the individual willingness to take risks in entrepreneurial house-holds with two working partners? Dr Stefan Schneck will give answers to this question at the 39th EBES conference at the beginning of April in Rom.

Participation in external events | 18.02.2022 Women like to start up in the liberal professions

Nearly 53 % of all new businesses in the liberal professions are founded by women. The number of start-ups is particularly high in university cities such as Berlin, Leipzig or Cologne.

Press release | 18.02.2022 Market-based approaches preferred in environmental policy

The majority of companies in the manufacturing sector are aware of the risks emanating from climate change. Accordingly, they consider aspects of climate protection in their business decisions: in a survey conducted by IfM Bonn in 2021, more than half of the company representatives stated that they …

News & Updates | 02.02.2022 Appointed to the BaFin Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter (IfM Bonn/University of Siegen) has been appointed as a member of the advisory board of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

IfM Publications | 31.01.2022 Business development during Corona

How has the Covid 19 pandemic affected businesses? How have government support measures influenced economic dynamics? Prof. Dr. Erik Stam and Jasper van Dijk give answers to these questions using the example of entrepreneurial development in the Netherlands in 2020.

Press release | 25.01.2022 NUI regional ranking: Munich rural district remains at the top

For the third time running, the rural district of Munich takes the top spot in the NUI region ranking in 2020. The following ranks are held by the city of Leverkusen, the rural district of Miesbach, the city of Rosenheim, and the rural district of Starnberg.

External publications | 21.01.2022 What characterises the Mittelstand

Even if the government has initiated numerous instruments to reduce bureaucracy in the past, many Mittelstand companies feel that the bureaucratic regulations are too high. As a result, one in four entrepreneurs consciously decides not to comply with individual bureaucratic obligations.

Participation in external events | 20.01.2022 Distinguishing companies in the crisis

Are companies able to prepare themselves for crises? What distinguishes resilient businesses? Dr Annette Icks used the example of the Covid 19 pandemic to show at an event organised by the New Quality of Work Initiative in mid-January that good capitalisation helps to avert crises.

IfM Publications | 14.01.2022 No silver bullet for a crisis like Covid Pandemic

The economic consequences of the Corona pandemic have affected companies in different ways over the past months. The majority continued to operate largely unhindered by implementing and adhering to a social distancing rules. Parts of the economy even profited from the crisis. Yet, some businesses …

Participation in external events | 13.01.2022 Regional and entrepreneurial traditions

What makes regions entrepreneurial? What is the role of factors such as regional and entrepreneurial traditions? Prof Dr Friederike Welter looked at these questions in her presentation "Visioning and Narrating Place" at the beginning of January.

Press release | 06.01.2022 Successor wanted!

According to estimates by the IfM Bonn, around 190,000 companies will handover their business in the next five years because the owners are retiring from management due to age, illness or death. Almost half of the takeovers will occur in the business-related services sector and more than a quarter …

IfM Publications | 16.12.2021 What characterises the Mittelstand

The extant literature has generally measured and analyzed the Mittelstand as the equivalent of SMEs. Such an approach is erroneous because, while firm size is one important characteristic of the Mittelstand, there are a number of other salient characteristics which have been ignored or overlooked …

IfM Publications | 30.11.2021 Effects of income losses on entrepreneurial households

About half of the self-employed households can no longer maintain their standard of living if the self-employed income declines by 37%. This is the result of Dr. Stefan Schneck's analysis in view of the Covid 19 pandemic.