The Swedish preschool sector, which is heavily dominated by a female workforce, is marked by low wages and poor health outcomes. Our study shows that preschools' organizational form is significantly associated with hiring practices, wage-setting, and worker health outcomes. For-profit preschools...

The conventional view in accounting is that diversification increases audit complexity and, in turn, audit fees. Conversely, the coinsurance effect of diversification hypothesis suggests that combining multiple business segments with imperfectly correlated earnings provides a coinsurance effect...

Italien und Deutschland sind sich sehr ähnlich hinsichtlich des hohen Anteils von Familienunternehmen und ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Wirtschaft. Das ZEW Mannheim legt in dieser Studie interessante Zahlen dazu vor.

Italien und Deutschland sind sich sehr ähnlich hinsichtlich des hohen Anteils von Familienunternehmen und ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Wirtschaft. Das ZEW Mannheim legt in dieser Studie interessante Zahlen dazu vor.

Various forms of institutionalized collectivity, colloquially “the corporation,” constitute structures of social life constitutive of the contemporary, yet underexamined and barely theorized within the critical social sciences. For over a century, however, the corporation has been theorized...

Sind die Mitbestimmungsrechte der deutschen Belegschaft bei Umwandlung in eine SE geschützt? Oder besteht Handlungsbedarf, wie es der letzte Koalitionsvertrag angekündigt hat? Dies hat die Stiftung Familienunternehmen in einem Gutachten untersuchen lassen. Autor ist Professor Christoph...

The U.S. personal bankruptcy system functions as a bankruptcy system for small businesses as well as consumers, because debts of non-corporate firms are personal liabilities of the firms' owners. If the firm fails, the owner has an incentive to file for bankruptcy, since both business debts and...

This dissertation consists of three articles striding topics from corporate governance to asset pricing. It seeks to understand the costs and benefits of better corporate governance, and how assets such as real estate are priced. My ultimate focus is on corporate governance on both sides of the...

Sind die Mitbestimmungsrechte der deutschen Belegschaft bei Umwandlung in eine SE geschützt? Oder besteht Handlungsbedarf, wie es der letzte Koalitionsvertrag angekündigt hat? Dies hat die Stiftung Familienunternehmen in einem Gutachten untersuchen lassen. Autor ist Professor Christoph...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

Die Befragung unter Familienunternehmen aller Größenklassen hat ergeben: Der langfristige Erhalt des Unternehmens ist das wichtigste Motiv für die Gründung einer Stiftung. Die Studie zeigt, dass Stiftungslösungen sehr passgenau einsetzbar sind. Die Stiftung Familienunternehmen hat die...

Die Befragung unter Familienunternehmen aller Größenklassen hat ergeben: Der langfristige Erhalt des Unternehmens ist das wichtigste Motiv für die Gründung einer Stiftung. Die Studie zeigt, dass Stiftungslösungen sehr passgenau einsetzbar sind. Die Stiftung Familienunternehmen hat die...

Der Mangel an Risikokapital bremst Investitionen und nachhaltiges Wachstum und beeinträchtigt die Krisenrobustheit der Unternehmen und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Stabilität. Neue und flexiblere Rechtsformen für die Beteiligungsfinanzierung können die Kapitalaufbringung der...

This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...

This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...

By double taxing the income of corporate firms but not unincorporated firms, taxes can play an important role in a firm's choice of organizational form. The sensitivity of the organizational form decision to tax rates can also be used to approximate the efficiency cost of the corporate income...

We study the distortions to aggregate output created by the differential tax treatment of corporations and pass through entities. We develop an industry equilibrium model in which the legal form of organization is an endogenous choice for firms facing trade off between tax treatment of business...

In this article, I empirically examine whether the performance of a chain-affiliated establishment is affected by its organizational form. Using cross-sectional data on the movie theater industry, I find evidence that performance is higher in a company-owned theater than in a franchised one,...

The choice of legal form affects many aspects of the company's operation and is one of the key decisions that an entrepreneur must make. In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of six legal forms of companies in terms of efficiency, indebtedness, growth and risk. Based on 72,596...

Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

In Ukraine, entrepreneurship started forming in the absence of the previous experience of its legal regulation in connection with the long socialist period. The relationship between individuals and organisations that have merged in one corporation needs special regulation, and one of the means...

This article specifically addresses the theme of revitalisation of Australian law in the facilitation of purpose-based companies. It is the second of two articles on purpose-based governance in the charitable and for-profit spheres. Building on the first article, this article critically analyses...

This paper demonstrates that shareholder ownership, a sacred cow of business, is a myth. According to our legal system, shareholders do not own the Modern Corporation itself, nor do they own the corporate assets or profits. While this finding raises many important questions, the focus of this...

We study the distortions to aggregate output created by the differential tax treatment of corporations and pass through entities. We develop an industry equilibrium model in which the legal form of organization is an endogenous choice for firms facing trade off between tax treatment of business...