resilience

Resilience above Growth

According to the latest ninth edition of the ZEW study commissioned by the Stiftung Mittelstand, Germany only ranks 18th out of the 21 industrialized nations analyzed in the Family Business Country Index (https://www.familienunternehmen.de/de). The study identifies six sub-indices, namely taxes, labor, regulation, financing, infrastructure, investment and energy. The authors of the ZEW study come to …

Tendencies in Entrepreneurial Succession

The current political and economic situation is also impacting entrepreneurial succession for businesses. Business founders as well as strategic buyers and financial investors are consciously incorporating uncertainties and risks arising from rising financing costs, from high inflation, increasing equity requirements, ESG requirements, fragile raw material supply chains, the increasing significance of the creditworthiness, worsening skills …