infonet-economy

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.

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

In light of the ongoing dominance of functionalist approaches as well as recent signs of change towards more critical and nuanced perspectives, we offer this book as a collection of critical narratives which render visible diverse examples of non-traditional entrepreneurship as well as usually overshadowed aspects of ‘traditional’ entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book...

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... when using the term “critical” in CES (Critical Entrepreneurship Studies), we have in mind research which deliber- ately goes against the grain of functionalism and its deterministic view of human nature, reality and research, with the aim of opening up space to critique the canon of accepted knowledge and...