Handovers of small and medium-sized family-operated enterprises in Germany, i.e. companies with 40 to 5,000 employees, to the next generation or new owners go more smoothly than expected. Almost 80 percent of…
Many business ideas of newly founded companies were developed while the founders were employed at private companies. New start-ups based on such ideas are considerably more innovative than other start-ups.…
For 59 percent of the companies using social media such as wikis, blogs, online social networks and cooperation platforms, these tools are part of their business strategy. However, their use is frequently…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany has climbed by 9.0 points in November 2010. The indicator now stands at 1.8 points after minus 7.2 points in the previous month. This value is below the…
In the years after a cartel has been detected, the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the respective economic sector increase considerably. This indicates a causal relationship between the detection of…
German welfare recipients accepting a so called One-Euro-Job (Ein-Euro-Job) are less likely to find regular employment, which is subject to social insurance contribution, than similar long-term unemployed…
Young firms in Germany have coped considerably well with the economic crisis. Their turnover and profit situation proved stable and, according to the firms, will improve next year. "Young firms consider…
Within a professional training programme at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, 19 employees at the Chinese Ministry of Finance and other state institutions in China and Vietnam visited…
Web 2.0 applications like facebook and twitter have established themselves as information and communication media in our private domain. Today the use of Web 2.0 in business, labelled “Enterprise 2.0”, is…