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Are family firms good employers?

Family firms employ about 60 percent of the global workforce. While it is widely assumed that they are good employers, data about their conduct is mixed. In this study, we extend stewardship and agency theories to test competing propositions about the impact of family on employment practices using data from 14,961 private Belgian firms over a 19-year period. Higher investments, lower…

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English / 08/06/2017

Umgang mit Risiken

Risikomanagement ist bei Weitem nicht nur ein Thema für Konzerne. Es gehört auch im Kleinunternehmen zu den zentralen unternehmerischen Aufgaben. Denn der geplante und professionelle Umgang mit Chancen und Risiken ist ein bedeutender Erfolgsfaktor, um die Unternehmensziele zu erreichen.

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Deutsch / 24/05/2017

Gestione dei rischi

La gestione del rischio non riguarda affatto soltanto i gruppi industriali. Essa rientra tra i principali compiti imprenditoriali anche in una piccola impresa. Una gestione professionale e pianificata di rischi e opportunità è infatti un importante fattore di successo ai fini del raggiungimento degli obiettivi aziendali.

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Italiano / 24/05/2017

The Formation of Opportunity Beliefs among University Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Study of Research- and Non-research-driven Venture Ideas

Opportunity beliefs, in other words the beliefs of a potential entrepreneur about the feasibility and market fit of a venture idea, are considered as a key driver of entrepreneurial action. The entrepreneur's existing knowledge plays an important role in reducing the uncertainty surrounding a venture idea, thereby contributing to the formation of strong opportunity beliefs. We…

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English / 01/02/2017

Gläubigerschaden aus Zahlungsverzug. Studie im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Gewerbeverbands sgv

- Schuldner, die ihren Zahlungsverpflichtungen nicht fristgerecht nachkommen, verursachen in den Gläubigerunternehmen einen erheblichen administrativen Aufwand, der vor allem in der Form von Arbeitsaufwand anfällt.
- Nach Artikel 106 des Obligationenrechts ist der Schuldner zum Ersatz des Schadens des Gläubigers, der sich aus dem Zahlungsverzug ergibt, verpflichtet, wenn dieser…

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Deutsch / 01/02/2017

Kunden, Aktionäre - und die Bürger?

Es wird heute immer wichtiger, die nach Tagesaktualität schwankende
öffentliche Meinung von den tief verwurzelten Einstellungen
der Bürger zu unterscheiden.

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Deutsch / 25/01/2017

CEOs' Personality and Abilities matter: Their Influence on SME Behavior and Performance

This dissertation including three distinct papers investigates what roles personal characteristics and abilities of chief executive officers (CEOs) play in the exploration, exploitation, and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The dissertation thereby focuses on one aspect of CEOs’ characteristics, namely, their regulatory focus (promotion focus and prevention…

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English / 01/01/2017

Schweizer Jungunternehmer überdurchschnittlich qualifiziert

Der Verzicht auf ein gesichertes Einkommen als Angestellte schreckt Firmengründer in der Schweiz nicht ab. Im Gegenteil: Gut gebildete Jungunternehmer mit hohen Opportunitätskosten gründen eher ein Start-up als solche mit tieferen Opportunitätskosten.

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Deutsch / 01/01/2017

Das St. Galler Nachfolge-Modell. Ein Rahmenkonzept zum Planen, Gestalten und Umsetzen einer ganzheitlichen Unternehmensnachfolge

Das St.Galler Nachfolge-Modell ist ein Rahmenkonzept für eine ganzheitliche Unternehmensnachfolge im Kontext familiengeführter Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU). Es richtet sich an Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer, Beraterinnen und Berater sowie Studierende, die sich differenziert mit dem Thema der Unternehmensnachfolge im Kontext familiengeführter (KMU) auseinandersetzen…

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Deutsch / 01/01/2017

Sustainable Furniture That Grows With End-users

Economically and environmentally it might be more responsible or even feasible to combine products and services to elongate product lifetime. Gispen, a major office furniture producer in the Netherlands, has embraced circular economic principles to create new business, extend product life time and improve the adaptability of their products. In the Use-it-Wisely (UIW) project two…

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English / 01/01/2017

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth’s first novel, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he followed this stunning debut with more than thirty books—earning another National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize.…

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English / 01/01/2017

Supporting the Small-to-Medium Vessel Industry

The aim of this chapter is to present a methodology for supporting the collaboration between the involved parties and for augmenting the final product with an always up to date digital file. The methodology is based on three support tools, which focus on the life cycle of small craft passenger vessels made of composite materials. The chapter concentrates on FRP (Fibreglass Reinforced…

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English / 01/01/2017

The Use-it-Wisely (UIW) Approach

Industrial products and services must be continually upgraded to meet changing demands of enhanced functionality and performance. The digital transformation of industry, together with new emerging technologies, enables improved solutions but at the same time cause increasing complexity and interdependence between system components. New forms of collaboration across the value chain…

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English / 01/01/2017

Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: The Editors’ Intro

The manufacturing industry is changing. Driven by a number of concurrent trends, including economic and political development, technological breakthroughs and social connectivity, the impacts on industry in general are fundamental. Companies need to find ways to adapt to this change in collaboration with actors across their value networks. For long-life industrial assets, i.e.,…

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English / 01/01/2017

Complexity Management and System Dynamics Thinking

With the dawn of the internet, mobile technology, cloud computing etc. our socio-technical environment has become ever more intertwined and hyper-complex. The field of complexity management tries to devise methods and methodologies to cope with the challenges arising from complexity. This chapter provides a brief overview of the field of complexity management. More specifi-cally, it…

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English / 01/01/2017

Fit für die digitalisierte Zukunft – Bachelorstudium in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

An der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft kommt keine Branche vorbei. Die Berner Fachhochschule BFH bildet ab Herbst 2017 Wirtschaftsingenieurinnen und -ingenieure aus, die für die zukünftigen Herausforderungen gerüstet sind – ein Studium an den Schnittstellen von Technik, Informatik und Wirtschaft.

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Deutsch / 01/01/2017

Innovation Management with an Emphasis on Co-Creation

Innovation management is a means of supporting an understanding of an organisation’s operating environment and enables the organisation to create and manage innovations more systematically throughout a system’s life-cycle. This chapter introduces innovation management and co-creation in general, and details the methods of design thinking and business model canvas, thereby enabling…

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English / 01/01/2017

Monetary Policy, Bank Lending and Corporate Investment

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the chain of causality frommacroeconomic financial policy to the microeconomic investment function. Concretely, we aim to provide an in-depth analysis of the relationships between the monetary policy of central banks, the loan policy of commercial banks, and the investment behavior of firms. We focus on countries that conduct their…

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English / 01/01/2017

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