Research Topics
Research in our team mainly focuses on three broad topics:
- Entrepreneurship, family firms, and small and medium sized companies
- Innovation and Transformation
- Sustainability and Performance
In our research, we mainly use quantitative-empirical methods. We work with data from questionnaire studies, experiments but also with objective data from company balance sheets, patents and other data sources. There are also methodological research foci (e.g. meta-analytical research and research on the application of machine learning or natural language processing methods to patent and text data).
The following list contains a more fine grained overview of topics:
- Digitisation
- Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship Education
- Family businesses
- Research methods
- Interlectual property (esp. Patents - and trademarks)
- Financing of startups and SMEs
- Hidden Champions
- Innovation management
- German Mittelstand
- Sustainability management
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Stiftungsunternehmen
Dissertationen und Habilitationen
- Finished dissertations and habilitations
Data sets
- Available Data sets
Publikations