Publications
IfM Bonn publishes its research findings primarily in its publication series: study results are published as "IfM-Materials" - or in condensed form as a "Denkpapier" (summary). Statistical analyses and results appear in the series "Daten und Fakten". Discussion and technical papers from all research areas are published as "Working Papers".
In addition, until 2012 selected articles were published in the series "Schriften zur Mittelstandsforschung" (Gabler Verlag). Under the "External Publications" tab, you find numerous essays by IfM researchers that have appeared in (peer-reviewed) specialist journals and external publication series.
552 Results
External publication | 2015 Selbstständigen-Monitor 2014: Self-employed in Germany 2011 to 2014
This report examines the development of the self-employed and start-ups in Germany in the period 2011 to 2014 on the basis of the microcensus. The total number of self-employed fell from 5,011,000 to 4,947,000 in the period under review.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Significance of digitization in medium-sized businesses
The survey of predominantly medium-sized companies shows that they attach great importance to digitization for their own company. For internationally active companies, the significance is even greater.
Facts and figures | 2015 Business start-ups by foreign citizens
Foreigners have increasingly influenced the process of business start-ups in both Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia between 2004 and 2014. Foreign founders have played a particularly important role in the commercial sector.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Business Start-ups and Crowd Invest
Crowd investing in Germany has been a new financing method available to innovative growth companies since 2011. Here, the mostly young companies try to address a broad mass of private investors through a targeted public call.
External publication | 2015 Context, Process and Gender in Entrepreneurship
The book places special emphasis on the behavior of individuals and groups in different contexts. At the same time it looks at individuals and structural factors that shape entrepreneurial activities and small business.
External publication | 2015 Researching Trust in Different Cultures
Trust is not an "objective" phenomenon that can be easily measured and whose understanding is identical in all cultures and states. The understanding and meaning of the term "trust" is rather related to the respective society and is a context-dependent phenomenon that poses problems for measurement and empirical analysis.
External publication | 2015 Italy – Key Issues and Policies
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the structure and performance of SME and entrepreneurship activity in Italy, the business environment and framework conditions for SMEs and entrepreneurship, the strategic framework and delivery arrangements for policy, national SME and entrepreneurship programmes and the local dimension of the policy.
IfM-Materialien | 2015 Economic policy implications of start-up research
Start-ups are often described as a driving force for economic development and employment growth. Promoting start-ups is a permanent task of economic policy. However, the number of start-ups in Germany is declining or stagnating.
External publication | 2015 CSR: Opportunities and risks
As resources become scarcer, the interest of politics and research has recently focused increasingly on new concepts of economic action. Behind this are catchwords such as green economy and entrepreneurs with social and societal responsibility.
External publication | 2014 The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship
Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us.
External publication | 2014 Demo offensive - Using demographic change offensively for medium-sized businesses
The effects of demographic change require a changed work and trust culture as well as innovative personnel and organizational management in small and medium-sized companies.
Working Papers | 2014 Sustainable Management and Performance in SMEs: A French Case Study
Nowadays, sustainable management seems more likely to be a guarantee of competitiveness for companies, regardless of their size.
IfM-Materialien | 2014 Zukunftspanel Mittelstand - A survey of experts on the challenges facing medium-sized businesses
Demographic change, globalization, scarcity of raw materials, climate change and accelerating technological development present (new) challenges for small and medium-sized businesses. An identification and assessment of current and future challenges was carried out with the help of the newly launched Future Panel for SMEs, an internet-based expert survey of SME policy, business and SME research.
External publication | 2014 Working poverty of the self-employed - Does gender play a role?
The article analyzes the income situation of self-employed persons, with a special focus on the self-employed in basic security (receipt of unemployment benefit II).
External publication | 2014 On the way to gender-specific models in start-up research
The number of women entrepreneurs is not only growing rapidly worldwide - they also make a significant contribution to employment, innovation and economic growth.
Working Papers | 2014 Works Councils in Family Businesses in Germany – why are there so few?
Works councils are an inherent part of the German economic and social system. An analysis of the prevalence of works councils in Germany reveals that they are not uniformly distributed across all types of businesses.
External publication | 2014 Social sustainability of cooperatives in traditional crafts
The sub-project "Social Sustainability of Cooperatives in Traditional Handicrafts" examines the work and functioning of cooperatives in textile handicrafts against the background of the cultural conditions of the rural Berber areas around Marrakech.
External publication | 2014 Entrepreneurship in Emerging Market Economies: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Entrepreneurship increasingly is becoming a global phenomenon, although its nature, extent and contribution to economic development varies according to the context in which it occurs.
External publication | 2014 Enterprising families in a cross-border context: the example of Belarus
This chapter explores the nature of simple entrepreneurial cross-border activity in one of the harshest environments for entrepreneurship in the world, namely Belarus, where private business activity is tolerated rather than encouraged. As in other post-Soviet countries, following legislative changes in the late 1980s making it legally possible for non-state enterprises to exist, the early 1990s saw an explosion of entrepreneurial activity in Belarus, albeit in the absence of a comprehensive legal and institutional framework.
External publication | 2014 From the advanced transition environment to the international markets: key opportunities and challenges for MADARA cosmetics
Due to its geographical location, Latvia has always been of great interest to other countries, but especially to its neighbors.