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Discover the latest trends in impact investing and impact measurement at a dynamic two-day conference in Mannheim. Network with experts, present your research, and gain practical insights from leading academics and practitioners.

Transform your life! Learn strategies for happiness and personal growth through goal-setting, habit management, and preventing biases in the talk “A Strategy for Your Life.”

Volocopter inspires students in the MAN 301 course with insights into strategies and innovations in urban air mobility.

Family businesses are regarded as important employers in Germany. Nevertheless, little is known about the payment structures of managing directors. For this reason, ifm mannheim and Gabriela Jaecker GmbH Personal und Nachfolgeberatung conducted the first study on salary structures in family ...

SCANCOR offers a unique week-long learning and discussion series on institutional analysis at the University of Hamburg. Every morning, two lectures offer insights into current developments in this field.

Kyung eun Park presented her research on the impact of gender quotas on female entrepreneurship at the prestigious Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

The past catches up with everyone – including family businesses. The team's case study Discover how past mistakes describe family businesses, how misconduct in the past can lead to serious crises in family businesses, and what coping strategies exist – presented in problem solving are possible. This ...

The article entitled ‘Navigating Environmental Threats to New Ventures: A Regulatory Fit Approach to Bricolage‘ addresses the direct and indirect role of entrepreneurs’ dispositional regulatory focus on their bricolage activities.

As part of the “New Generation New Vision” series, founder Simon Engelhorn will be coming to the ifm on 23 July 2024.

Ifm, ZEW and IAW have been developing a master plan for SMEs since 2023.

The number of self-employed migrants has risen sharply. Today, every sixth entrepreneur in Germany has a migrant background. The ifm examines their markets, contributions to jobs and training positions as well as support options for start-ups.

New Web 2.0 technologies promise to enable small social initiatives to achieve a major social impact with minimal resources.

Under the motto “Empower Female Founders”, the Female Founders Academy provided targeted support for women and female founders interested in starting their own business as they take their first steps into entrepreneurship.

On using new data sources to research the behavior and attitudes of migrants and natives

With the support of KPMG and the ifm Sponsors' Association, ifm Mannheim has produced a new analysis of the importance and economic strength of family businesses.

In the second policy brief of the Mercator Foundation-funded project “Skilled workers of the future or marginalised in the long term?”, Dr Christoph Sajons, Ralf Philipp and Carina Hartmann examine the possible role of self-employment as a way for refugees and immigrants to enter the German labour ...

The Mercator Foundation-funded project “Skilled workers of the future or marginalised in the long term?” is investigating various ways in which formally marginally qualified refugees can successfully and sustainably integrate into the German labour market. In the first policy brief, the team led by ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many small business owners and solo self-employed people with massive challenges. What consequences have the restrictions of the past two years had from the perspective of this group?

The article demonstrates the important mediating role of the resource-induced coping heuristic (RiCH) between psychological capital and the recognition of opportunities.

Self-employment only plays a subordinate role on the German labour market, accounting for around 10 percent of the working population. Surveys also show that people in Germany are comparatively reluctant to set up their own business and that the willingness to do so has declined in recent years. ...

ifm at the University of Mannheim advises the German government with expertise on migrant companies

What should start-up support look like for newly immigrated people interested in starting a business and founders with refugee experience?

Brief report for the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Women, Senior Citizens and Youth

Article “Self-employment as a path to labour market integration: perspectives from the start-up ecosystem” by Carina Hartmann and Esra Güllü was published

Studies by Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Andrew Isaak published in the IAP book “European Entrepreneurship Research and Practice”.

How is the field of the sharing economy structured? Dominika Wruk, Tino Schöllhorn and Achim Oberg explore this question in their latest publication.

Artikel “Innovation in der Nachgründungsphase von Familienunternehmen” von Jan Zybura, Nora Zybura, Jan-Philipp Ahrens und Michael Woywode.

The article “The Influence of Multinational Corporations on International Alliance Formation Behavior of Colocated Start-Ups” was published online first in Organisation Science (VHB: A+)

We look back on an intensive one-week workshop on institutional analysis.

The Family Businesses team regularly examines the importance of the largest German family businesses for economic strength, both in Germany and internationally.

Ifm article by Nora Zybura, Katharina Schilling, Ralf Philipp and Michael Woywode published in the anthology “Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe – Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights”

The Junior Accelerator Baden-Württemberg program is dedicated to young founders.

According to the relevant management literature, the loyalty of shareholders to the family business is an important factor for the success and long-term survival of family businesses. But how do you actually achieve this shareholder loyalty?

Publication by ifm employee Robert Strohmeyer on gender differences in the innovation behaviour of companies has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing.

The EU is funding the CUPESSE research project with around five million euros to combat the serious youth unemployment in Europe.

The start-up culture is to be strengthened by three new modules

As part of the BMWi-funded BIMiD research project, a real construction project is being scientifically monitored in order to systematically investigate the use of open e-business standards in the planning, realisation and operation of a property as well as interdisciplinary work with the BIM method.

Das von der DFG geförderte Forschungsprojekt „Diffusion und Adaption moderner Managementkonzepte“ untersucht, ob und wie moderne Managementkonzepte für KMU nutzbar sind. Die Studie berücksichtigt nicht nur einzelne Konzepte, sondern analysiert auch deren Beziehungen und Einfluss auf Verbreitung und ...