Thema Unternehmen

Gender Parity on Top Boards Is Still a Far-off Goal, and It Is Time for Companies to Take Action: Editorial

Number of Women on Boards of Large Companies Keeps Growing: Momentum from Inclusion Requirement, However, Is Waning

The upward trend in women’s representation on executive and supervisory boards of major companies in Germany continued in 2022, although the overall momentum has slowed yet again. Growth on executive boards in particular has slowed, as the most recent DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows: Following a significant increase at the 200 largest companies from 2020 to 2021, there was only a one-percentage-point ...

Corporate Reporting Provides Insight into Companies’ Commitment to Gender Equality

Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual reports, this second report in the 2023 DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows that the major publicly ...

Erneut mehr Frauen in Vorständen großer Unternehmen – durch Beteiligungsgebot angestoßene Dynamik lässt aber nach

In den Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten großer Unternehmen in Deutschland waren im vergangenen Jahr erneut mehr Frauen vertreten als zuvor. Gleichwohl ließ die Dynamik insgesamt wieder nach. Das gilt insbesondere für die Vorstände, wie das neueste DIW Managerinnen-Barometer zeigt. Nachdem es bei den umsatzstärksten 200 Unternehmen von 2020 auf 2021 noch einen größeren Sprung gab, ging es 2022 nur noch ...

Berichterstattung in Jahresabschlüssen von Unternehmen lässt Rückschlüsse auf deren Engagement für Gleichstellung zu

Im Rahmen ihrer Jahresabschlüsse müssen viele Unternehmen in Deutschland nicht nur über ihre finanziellen Kennzahlen berichten. Seit einigen Jahren verlangt der Gesetzgeber vermehrt auch Auskünfte zu nichtfinanziellen Aspekten wie der Beteiligung von Frauen an Führungspositionen. Dieser zweite Teil des DIW Managerinnen-Barometers 2023 zeigt auf Basis einer quantitativen Textanalyse von Unternehmensberichten, ...

Anstieg des Frauenanteils in Vorständen hat sich wieder verlangsamt: Interview

Weg zur Geschlechterparität in Spitzengremien bleibt weit – Unternehmen sind am Zug: Editorial

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...

A Lasting Crisis Affects R&D Decisions of Smaller Firms: The Greek Experience

We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At the first stage, we find that the ...

Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...