Trotz der ihr zugeschriebenen Vorteile ist die materielle Mitarbeiterbeteiligung - gerade in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen - in Deutschland wenig verbreitet. Auf der Basis schriftlicher und mündlicher Unternehmensbefragungen mithilfe bi- und multivariater Analysemethoden gehen die...

In our paper, we view academia from a personnel economics perspective and analyze three important questions: (1) Who decides to become a researcher and what are the mechanisms of selection and self-selection that drive this process? (2) What makes re-searchers stay motivated and how can they be...

Despite the fact that childbearing is time-consuming (i.e. associated with a negative resource effect), we descriptively find female researchers with children in business and economics to be more productive than female researchers without children. Hence, female researchers with children either...

Little is currently known about the effects of skill composition on academic entrepreneurship. Therefore, in this paper, following Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades approach, we study how the composition of a scientist’s skills affects his or her intention to become an entrepreneur....