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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 ...
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The Journal of Technology Transfer
48 (2023), 4, S. 1161–1175
| Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexander S. Kritikos, Aggelos Tsakanikas
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This article investigates the impact of reorganization on productivity within public-sector firms addressing the owners' composition, the board-management relationship, and the management's decision to outsource activities. Considering a large panel of 2,325 German municipally owned utilities between 2003 and 2014, firm-level productivity is estimated based on a control function approach. Contrary ...
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International Public Management Journal
26 (2023), 4, S. 463–488
| Caroline Stiel
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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 ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
47 (2023), 3, S. 788-830
| Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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This article introduces eleven research articles that connect concepts of technological relatedness and diffusion with the transformation of industrial and innovation systems. These studies focus on the role of knowledge spillovers, regional variations in innovation and performance, and the evolution of new technologies, such as green and digital technologies. Regional capabilities and ability to diversify ...
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The Journal of Technology Transfer
48 (2023), 3, S. 469–475
| Sara Amoroso, Dario Diodato, Bronwyn H. Hall, Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello
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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 ...
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Small Business Economics
61 (2023), S. 1027–1051
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodríguez, Claudia Stier
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Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, and ...
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Small Business Economics
61 (2023), S. 869–889
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
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In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, ...
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Small Business Economics
59 (2022), 3, S. 1273–1299
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
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Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, S. 736–761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the ...
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Small Business Economics
58 (2022), 2, S.593–609
| Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik
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Firms with superior productivity, labeled superstar firms, are argued to be the link between rising concentration and the fall of the aggregate labor share in the US. This analysis confirms that similar evidence is found within the European context: the market share and firm size increase, whereas the labor share decreases with productivity. One of the much discussed mechanisms behind this development ...
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Journal of Applied Economics
25 (2022), 1, S. 583-603
| Caroline Stiel, Alexander Schiersch