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 | 2012 The largest family businesses - Autumn 2012
As part of the study series "The largest family-owned companies in Germany", the IfM Bonn asked the opinion of the largest family-owned companies on the economic situation and current topics for the third time in autumn 2012.
External publication | 2012 Revisiting Procedural Utility: Evidence from European Survey Data
It is generally recognized that self-employed people are more satisfied in their job than employees. In the scientific literature this is regularly explained by the independence and autonomy of a self-employed person.
External publication | 2012 Nonlinear Effects of Comparison Income in Quit Decisions: Status versus Signal!
In the context of employee mobility, the question arises to what extent an employee's decision to terminate an employment contract depends on his relative wage position in the company. Previous studies on this problem have mainly investigated linear effects.
External publication | 2012 Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In connection with the decision of employees to quit their previous job, the question arises whether the decision to quit depends more on status or future career prospects.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Internationalization paths of medium-sized companies in Eastern Europe - internationalization process and location effects using the example of Lower Saxony's SMEs
For Western European companies in general and for Western European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular, the political and economic opening of the markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at the beginning of the 1990s provided an important reason to intensify their activities in the Greater CEE region.
Facts and figures | 2012 The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in energy-intensive industries
The IfM Bonn has examined the development of energy costs in industry for the years 2008 to 2010 and the importance of small and medium-sized energy-intensive industrial companies in 2010.
Facts and figures | 2012 Key figures for medium-sized companies in Eastern European EU countries
In the course of the EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007 ten Central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union (EU-10). The geographical proximity as well as the intensive trade relations with Germany gave the IfM Bonn the opportunity to determine size class-specific company key figures for the Eastern European EU countries for the first time.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Company successions in Germany - Current trends
Since the last large-scale, nationwide company survey on the topic of succession was conducted in Germany in 1989, there was a need for up-to-date data.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 The importance of short-time work compensation in medium-sized companies
In the course of the economic crisis in 2008/09, short-time working was made significantly more attractive in accordance with § 170 SGB III and the maximum period of entitlement was greatly extended.
Facts and figures | 2012 Freelance start-ups in Germany - Evaluation of data from the tax authorities for the years 2008 to 2011
At the beginning of 2012, the IfM Bonn presented the first data on the founding of new companies in the liberal professions. At the end of 2012 the current data from the tax authorities could be evaluated for the first time for all 16 federal states.
External publication | 2012 Case Study of High-Tech Gründerfonds
On behalf of the European Commission, the European Network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR), of which IfM Bonn is a German partner, has evaluated state support measures to facilitate access to financing for small and medium-sized enterprises in five member states of the European Union (D, F, GB, PL and S).
External publication | 2012 Development of entrepreneurial personality potentials - an empirical analysis in secondary school II.
The following article presents the planned intervention study in panel design for the development of entrepreneurial potential within the framework of curricularly anchored entrepreneurship education in secondary level II.
External publication | 2012 Regional and company-specific factors for high growth dynamics of ICT companies in Germany with particular emphasis on knowledge spillovers
Two hundred ICT companies based in Germany were interviewed to find out which regional and company specific factors may have a measurable direct impact on corporate growth.
External publication | 2012 Establishment of works councils in small and medium-sized enterprises
While works councils are widespread in large companies, only a minority of small and medium-sized enterprises have an interest representation in the form of a works council.
External publication | 2012 Self-management and insolvency plans - on the situation before the introduction of the ESUG
Among other things, the law to further facilitate the restructuring of companies (ESUG) strengthens the procedural and continuation variant of self-administration by the debtor.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Obstacles and problems in the founding of companies by migrants
Although migrants are more likely than non-migrants to start a business, the question arises as to whether obstacles and problems arise in the start-up process that have a particular effect on migrants.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Freelance start-ups in Germany - Results of a first evaluation of data from the tax authorities
The foundation statistics of the IfM Bonn did not contain any information on non-commercial foundations, especially freelancers. In order to determine the number of start-ups in all sectors of the economy, data on tax registrations with the tax authorities were evaluated for the first time in 15 federal states.
External publication | 2012 The largest family businesses - spring 2012
Within the framework of the study series "The largest family businesses in Germany", the IfM Bonn has, for the second time in the spring of 2012, gathered the opinion of the largest family businesses on the economic situation and current topics.
External publication | 2012 On the influence of owner management on the works council-manager relationship - a theoretical and empirical analysis in medium-sized companies
Whether a company is owner-managed or not is of decisive importance for the existence of a works council. The stewardship theory and the principal-agent theory show different effects of owner-management in this respect.
Facts and figures | 2012 Statistics on enterprise size - Enterprises, turnover and employees subject to social insurance contributions 2004 to 2009 in Germany
In this volume of tables, the IfM Bonn has summarized the currently available statistical data material on the number of companies in Germany.