The German Mittelstand: Antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?
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- Pahnke, André & Holz, Michael & Welter, Friederike, 2019. "Unternehmerische Zielsysteme: Unterscheiden sich mittelständische Unternehmen tatsächlich von anderen?," IfM-Materialien 276, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn.
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Mittelstand; context; everyday entrepreneurship;JEL classification:
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2019-03-18 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-INO-2019-03-18 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2019-03-18 (Small Business Management)
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