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Workshop
DIW Berlin is pleased to host the Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Organization on November 17–18, 2025. The workshop will bring together scholars from economics, management, and organizational studies to discuss how organizational choices shape the performance and evolution of entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses.
17.11.2025| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Working Papers
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
Essen:
GLO,
2025,
45 S.
(GLODiscussion Paper ; 1654)
| Torben Klarl, Alexander S. Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
In:
Small Business Economics
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-08-27]
| Torben Klarl, Alexander S. Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan
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Externe Working Papers
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2025,
45 S.
(CEPA Discussion Paper ; 91)
| Torben Klarl, Alexander S. Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan
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Data Documentation 113 / 2025
In spring 2021, DIW Berlin, ZEW Mannheim, and the University of Trier conducted an online survey among self-employed persons to collect data about the situation of the self-employed in Germany one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The online survey was disseminated in cooperation with the Verband der Gründer und Selbstständigen Deutschland (VGSD) e.V. and other professional associations. ...
2025| Caroline Stiel, Alexander S. Kritikos, Jörn Block, Irene Bertschek
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DIW Discussion Papers 2142 / 2025
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to investment ...
2025| Joern Block, Miriam Gnad, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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DIW Discussion Papers 2134 / 2025
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
2025| Torben Klarl, Alexander S. Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
Investigating how non-cognitive skills—captured by traits—influence entrepreneurial behaviour helps understand why some individuals are more likely to become and remain entrepreneurs. This chapter reviews research on the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship. With respect to the entry decision, research finds that high scores in three of the Big Five factors (openness to experience, ...
In:
Swee-Hoon Chuah, Robert Hoffmann, Ananta Neelim (Eds.) ,
Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Cheltenham : Elgar
S. 239-242
| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Working Papers
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to investment ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2025,
37 S.
(CEPA Discussion Paper ; 93)
| Joern Block, Miriam Gnad, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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Externe Working Papers
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to investment ...
Potsdam:
IZA,
2025,
37 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 18204)
| Joern Block, Miriam Gnad, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel