Based on information from a large sample of German researchers and using business ownership and nascent entrepreneurship as alternative...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and communications,...

Finding the internationalization triggers of family-managed firms is not easy because family-managed firms are regarded as being very...

This paper examines whether corruption acts to “grease” or “sand” firms' exit. Corruption could facilitate exit when it is a tax that distorts...

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career advancement. Taking patents and invention...

This paper studies whether corruption has a greasing or a sanding effect on the production of innovation. The main novelty lies in comparing...

Using panel data for a large cross-country sample, we consider the influences of FDI inflows, inward development aid, and immigration on the...

Adding specific firm-level insights into the factors driving firms to subcontract operations to the informal sector, this article uses data...

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career advancement. Taking patents and invention...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data...

This research contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship by studying whether design patents and utility patents have similar effects on...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data...

This paper uses firm-level survey responses across more than 100 emerging and developing countries to examine whether female managers or...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better at...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in...

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and...

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire...

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among...