IfM Bonn News

External publications | 12.07.2023 Contexts in entrepreneurship research

How do the different contexts influence the founding and development of companies? Why is it helpful to go beyond the actor-centred perspective in entrepreneurship research? What methodical approaches exist to understand and analyse the different contexts of entrepreneurship?

External publications | 10.07.2023 The framework conditions matter

The Mittelstand companies can be innovative despite current challenges – if the framework conditions are favourable.

Press release | 10.07.2023 NUI 2022: District of Munich tops list for the fifth time in a row

Since 2018, the district of Munich has been at the top of those districts and independent cities in which new businesses are most frequently founded or to which commercial enterprises are relocated. The cities of Leverkusen and Rosenheim follow in second and third place, with the district of …

Press release | 05.07.2023 More harmonisation of national posting regulations strengthens the EU internal market

Within the framework of the EU for the freedom to provide services, companies can temporarily post their employees in other EU member states. However, the posting companies must fulfil different bureaucratic requirements and use reporting portals for each EU country.

Press release | 04.07.2023 Biggest challenges for Mittelstand companies: Securing skilled workers – and company competitiveness

Skilled worker shortage is becoming a more significant challenge for entrepreneurs. Mittelstand companies named demographic development with all its consequences as the current TOP challenge per the Future Panel of the Mittelstand survey for the third time in a row.

Press release | 22.06.2023 Professor Friederike Welter receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasglow

The University of Glasgow Senate awarded Professor Friederike Welter an honorary doctorate for her research on the entrepreneurial Mittelstand and "Everyday Entrepreneurship".

Press release | 19.06.2023 The GmbH-gebV legal form does not facilitate company succession searches

According to estimates by the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn for 2022 to 2026, an average of 38,000 company transfers in Germany per year are currently pending. Owners primarily try to implement an internal family succession plan – but family members are not always willing to take …

External publications | 15.06.2023 The Diana Conference Finals Conference Paper

The research paper "A Study of Family Helpers of Chinese Women Entrepreneurs" by Anna-Katharina Schaper, Prof. Dr Friederike Welter and Prof. Dr William B. Gartner was selected as a "Paper led by junior scholar" at the Diana Conference in Boston in early June.

Participation in external events | 15.06.2023 Overview of Contextualizing Entrepreneurship

Prof. Dr Friederike Welter held the keynote speech on the status quo of research in the field of Contextualising Entrepreneurship at the conference "Rural Entrepreneurship in Times of Transformation" at Linnaeus University in Kalmar in mid-June.

Participation in external events | 06.06.2023 Entrepreneurial goal in the Mittelstand

Family entrepreneurs more often rank their independence, the satisfaction of their staff, the maintenance or creation of jobs, and ecological goals as "very important business goals" than managers in companies that are not Mittelstand.

External publications | 02.06.2023 Company with tied ownership and business succession

Does the planned new legal form of a "company with tied assets" (GmbH-gebV) facilitate business succession?

Participation in external events | 01.06.2023 The challenge of climate change

How do small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceive climate change? What are the biggest challenges for them? What measures do they take against it?

IfM Publications | 30.05.2023 SMEs now play a larger role in trade and FDI relations between Germany and Brazil

Using new statistical data sources, this policy brief highlights a considerable and growing importance of German SMEs for the trade and FDI relations between Brazil and Germany. Although trade volumes and the numbers of involved SMEs have increased, there is still room to develop business …

Press release | 25.05.2023 Over 13,000 micro-enterprises were insolvent in 2022

Slightly more companies filed for insolvency in 2022 than in the previous year (+4.3%). The increase was much more substantial for companies with 11 to 100 employees (+26.1 %). Most of all insolvency applications in 2022 once again came from micro-enterprises (up to 10 employees).

Participation in external events | 25.05.2023 Ways to reduce bureaucracy

How can the government reduce bureaucracy more effectively? Are there methods for measuring the bureaucratic demands in the start-up process?