Peter Schmidt

Michael Frese

Andreas Bausch

Evidence-based Entrepreneurship introduces the concept of evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE), discuss the implications of EBE, and sketches out its opportunities and limitations. The users of EBE can be the scientists themselves, professionals who deal with entrepreneurs, policy makers whose policies affect entrepreneurs, students of entrepreneurship, and last but not least the entrepreneurs themselves. Much of the review is related to the idea of meta-analysis -- a quantitative review of the scientific literature -- to help determine how strong certain relationships are, how often a relationship consistently appears across studies, and how much we can trust the methodological rigor of the research. A meta-analysis provides the best available type of evidence because it goes beyond one methodology, one study, and one researcher. Evidence-based Entrepreneurship provides a great opportunity that is relevant for practice and policy while strengthening the empirical and theoretical bases of entrepreneurship research. Practice can never be fully based on evidence; therefore, we talk about evidence-informed practice and evidence-based research suggestions. Both management and entrepreneurship show a gap between knowledge and practice - the knowledge-doing gap. Managers as well as entrepreneurs or professionals who deal with entrepreneurs often fail to take note of scientific evidence when making decisions and empirical research has shown that managers often take actions that are uninformed and sometimes even diametrically opposed to empirical evidence. In the area of entrepreneurship, one can often hear open disdain for scholarly work because professors have not yet "made their first million" - the foremost argument seems to be that only experience counts. The authors suggest that professionals who deal with entrepreneurs can profit from evidence-informed practice.

Cumulative Science, Action Principles, and Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

In the early decades of European integration the enforcement of EU competition law was highly centralised. Virtually all enforcement actions under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU were initiated by the European Commission. More recently the enforcement of EU competition law has become less centralised - many would say even decentralised. In 2004, essentially in an effort to increase enforcement capacity in the wake of EU enlargement, the involvement of Member State competition authorities was significantly reinforced by national authorities being given power to pursue infringements of EU competition law largely on the basis of their domestic enforcement regimes. This combination of decentralisation and enforcement autonomy raises questions about the relationship between EU law and national law, as well as about the costs of enforcement. This new book links these questions by analysing how competences in the area of sanctions are distributed between EU and national law, and how this influences the costs of enforcement. The author's conclusions, which highlight the economic implications of the choices made by competition authorities, courts and legislators, will be of use to all the above in further developing EU competition policy. The PhD thesis on which this book is based was declared runner-up in the 2013 Concurrences Awards.

Principles and Practice

Sanctions in EU Competition Law

David A. Hofmann

Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology to create a single source summarizing what we know regarding errors in organizations and providing a focused effort toward identifying future directions of research. This volume answers that need and provides contributions by researchers who have conducted a considerable amount of research on errors occurring in the work context. Students, academics and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines, i.e., industrial organizational psychology, medicine, aviation, human factors and systems engineering, will find this book of interest.

Errors in Organizations

Marco Willem Gelderen

Marco van Gelderen

Adriaan Roy Thurik

Research Centre for Economic Policy (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

John Sabini

Originally published in 1985, this book was an attempt at a comprehensive review of the psychology of action in various areas of psychology. It is also an attempt to bridge two languages and traditions in psychology: German and Anglo-American. Although Anglo-American psychology had had an enormous influence on German psychology, the influence had not gone the other way around - at least not in recent years. Therefore, this book attempts to get the two traditions to speak with each other. The main article, from one language area, and the following discussion, from the other language area, together result in an extensive treatment of an action-theoretic approach in the respective psychological area; thus, both the main article and "discussion" should be read together.

The Concept of Action in Psychology

Goal Directed Behavior

Christoph Kasten

Constantin Skarpelis

Birgit Zang-Scheucher

Herausgegeben für die Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Projektträger "Arbeit und Technik"

Bilanz und Perspektiven anwendungsorientierter Forschung

Software für die Arbeit von morgen

Jette Wiegel

Mit Selbstverantwortung zum Unternehmenserfolg Obwohl Eigeninitiative eine wichtige Fähigkeit im Berufsalltag des 21. Jahrhunderts ist, gab es bislang kaum fundierte Managementliteratur darüber. Diese Lücke wird nun endlich geschlossen: Wiegel und Frese zeigen den Zusammenhang zwischen Eigeninitiative und Unternehmenserfolg und erklären, wie die Autonomie der Mitarbeiter systematisch gefördert werden kann und muss. Ein mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen gespickter Leitfaden für Führungskräfte, die ihre Mitarbeiter zu mehr Eigeninitiative anleiten und ihnen mehr Effizienz und Zufriedenheit beim Arbeiten ermöglichen möchten - denn nur so kann ein Unternehmen langfristig erfolgreich sein!

Proaktivität fördern, Unternehmenskultur prägen, Innovationskraft steigern, plus E-Book inside (ePub, mobi oder pdf)

Das Konzept Eigeninitiative

Frese and his contributors have studied small businesses in four African countries from a psychological perspective--the first time this has been done--and report that it's the psychological aspects of their strategies, not just the strategies themselves, that contribute significantly to their success. They also prove that many of the stereotypes that seem to characterize the owners of microbusinesses are clearly incorrect. Executives, analysts, bankers, international entrepreneurs, and their academic colleagues will discover that many of the conclusions they have drawn from previous studies can not be generalized. Only by separating those that can be generalized from those that can not, can we get a true understanding of the small business entrepreneurial dynamic.

A Psychological Approach

Success and Failure of Microbusiness Owners in Africa

Originally published in 1985, this book was an attempt at a comprehensive review of the psychology of action in various areas of psychology. It is also an attempt to bridge two languages and traditions in psychology: German and Anglo-American. Although Anglo-American psychology had had an enormous influence on German psychology, the influence had not gone the other way around – at least not in recent years. Therefore, this book attempts to get the two traditions to speak with each other. The main article, from one language area, and the following discussion, from the other language area, together result in an extensive treatment of an action-theoretic approach in the respective psychological area; thus, both the main article and "discussion" should be read together.

Michael Frese

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