Working Papers
In order to make current research results available to a broad public at an early stage, the IfM Bonn has launched the Working Paper Series. Here, IfM-Bonn external researchers can also publish their conference papers and papers still in the review process from start-up and entrepreneurship research, research on family businesses and SMEs.
60 Results
Working Papers | 2010 Good practice examples and documentation of the European Enterprise Award 2009/10
With the European Enterprise Award, the European Commission honors outstanding achievements of public institutions and public-private partnerships.
Working Papers | 2010 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st to 3rd quarter 2009 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.
Working Papers | 2010 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st half of 2009 in Germany and in the federal states
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.
Working Papers | 2009 Job dynamics and sustainable employment effects in small and medium-sized enterprises
According to the SME hypothesis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make a higher contribution to the creation of new jobs subject to social security contributions than large companies, measured by their share of total employment.
Working Papers | 2009 The European Services Directive Objectives and status of implementation
According to the plans of the European Union (EU), the European Services Directive should be implemented in all European member states by the end of 2009. In order to simplify the practice of a service industry across EU countries, the nationwide establishment of so-called "points of single contact" is at the heart of the Services Directive.
Working Papers | 2009 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st quarter 2009 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.
Working Papers | 2009 Foundations and liquidations 2008 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office
Working Papers | 2009 Good practice examples and documentation of the European Enterprise Award 2008/09
With the European Enterprise Award, the European Commission honors outstanding achievements of public institutions and public-private partnerships. In order to make the initiatives and practice models known nationally and internationally, the IfM Bonn, which supervised the competition as the national contact point, prepared a documentation of the 2008/09 competition round.
Working Papers | 2009 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st to 3rd quarter 2008 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.
Working Papers | 2008 Succession outside the family - information asymmetries in the succession process and how to overcome them
Finding a successor from outside the family or a company to be transferred is problematic. The IfM Bonn has theoretically dealt with these special problems in the negotiations between transferors and takeovers in a study. The focus was on the aspect of information asymmetry, which has been treated rather negatively in the literature on succession.
Working Papers | 2008 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st half of 2008 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations.
Working Papers | 2008 Employment contribution of the middle class 2007 in Germany
In September 2007, employment figures exceeded the 40 million mark for the first time since reunification.
Working Papers | 2008 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st quarter 2008 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.
Working Papers | 2008 Foundations and liquidations 2007 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations.
Working Papers | 2008 Examination of the possibilities of using the business register for SME statistics
It is still not possible with the help of official statistics to determine the proportion of medium-sized companies and their economic importance. There are more SMEs than small and medium-sized enterprises, and not every SME is an SME.
Working Papers | 2008 Notes on the equity ratio in German medium-sized companies - a working paper
For many years, the discussion about the equity ratio of medium-sized companies has been ongoing in the Federal Republic of Germany. Already at the beginning of the 80's the end of the middle class and the business startup in Germany seemed to come for many skeptics with equity ratios of 20.9%.
Working Papers | 2007 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st to 3rd quarter 2007 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations.
Working Papers | 2007 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st half of 2007 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations.
Working Papers | 2007 Foundations and liquidations in the 1st quarter 2007 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations.
Working Papers | 2007 Foundations and liquidations 2006 in Germany
Foundations, liquidations and insolvencies are important elements of economic dynamics. However, Germany lacks official statistics on start-ups and liquidations. Therefore, the IfM Bonn regularly compiles its own statistics based on the business advertisement statistics of the Federal Statistical Office.