Andrea Herrmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4016079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Herrmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrmann |
| SIGNATURE | HERRMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7850-8344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New venture creation
We present a Schumpeterian model of new venture creation, under uncertainty, which explains the tradeoff between speed-to-breakeven and revenue-at-breakeven and relates this to the level of innovation. We then explore the tradeoffs between these outcomes empirically in a sample of 331 information and communication technology (ICT) ventures using a multi-input, multi-output stochastic frontier model. We estimate the contribution of financial capit…
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms
Political economists and labour sociologists alike have studied how the skill specificity of workers can be explained, as it significantly affects workers' performance. However, the emergence of the gig economy may substantially change skill hiring and specificity in online labour markets because gig workers do not need formal educational credentials to offer their services. Instead, skills are "unbundled" from occupations, and platforms provide …
“We don't need no (higher) education” - How the gig economy challenges the education-income paradigm
The empirical relationship between educational attainment and pay levels has been widely acknowledged in the labour-economic and labour-sociology literatures. While the causalities underlying this relationship are not conclusively established, researchers broadly agree that higher educational attainment leads to higher income levels in dependent employment, temporary hiring, and freelancing alike. The ‘gig economy’, where workers complete jobs me…
Platform adaptation to regulation
While online platforms were initially applauded for improving services in a range of sectors, they are currently being criticized for ignoring laws and regulations. We analyse the evolution of Helpling – the largest domestic cleaning platform company in Europe – by focusing on the ways that Helpling has adapted its platform to regulations in five national contexts (France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom). Using data on c…
Whom do nascent ventures search for? Resource scarcity and linkage formation activities during new product development processes
External linkages allow nascent ventures to access crucial resources during the process of new product development. Forming external linkages can substantially contribute to a venture’s performance. However, little is known about the paths of external linkage formation, as well as the circumstances that drive the choice to pursue one rather than another path. This gap deserves further investigation, because we do not know whether insights develop…
Is the online gig economy beyond national reach? A European analysis
With the emergence of the online gig economy, computer-based jobs can be completed by gig workers around the world. This raises the question whether the labour market for online gigs is truly boundless as distance no longer matters. Based on gravity models, we investigate the effect of geographical, institutional and cultural distance on almost 30 000 platform hirings between 26 European countries. While we find that online gig platforms are used…
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems
The advent of online platforms has been considered to be one of the most significant economic changes of the last decade, with their emergence reflecting a longer trend of increasing contingent work, labor market flexibility, and outsourcing work to independent contractors. In this article, we conceptualize the so‐called gig economy along four dimensions, namely, online intermediation, independent contractors, paid tasks, and personal services. U…
A plea for varieties of entrepreneurship
Research into the link between national institutions and entrepreneurship is characterized by three shortcomings: First, clear-cut concepts of institutions are rare. Second, a parsimonious understanding of how a few core institutions influence entrepreneurship is missing. Third, scholars often ignore that incrementally innovative ventures constitute a distinct (and under-researched) type of entrepreneurship next to the (over-researched) form of r…
Varieties of entrepreneurship
While entrepreneurship researchers agree that institutions ‘matter’ for entrepreneurship, they also have a rather encompassing understanding of institutions as almost any external factor that influences entrepreneurship. Ultimately, this literature thus comes up with a long list of institutional factors that may explain entrepreneurial differences between countries. But which institutions are most influential? How do these institutions relate to …
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Against the Schumpeterian mainstream
An institutionalist scholar, familiar with the numerous impacts of institutions, is likely to be puzzled by most entrepreneurship studies that have been published in leading economics, business and management journals over the past decades. Surely, these studies are far from agreeing on one homogeneous line of research. Disagreement concerns most fundamentally the question whether entrepreneurial ‘traits’ or ‘founding processes’ are the defining …
When dichotomisation becomes a problem for the analysis of middle‐sized datasets
This article aims at illustrating the circumstances in which Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its ramifications, fs/QCA and MVQCA, become particularly useful tools of analysis. To this end, we discuss the most pertinent problem which researchers encounter when using QCA: the problem of contradicting observations. In QCA analysis, contradictions arise from the sheer number of cases and the problem of dichotomisation. In order to handle c…
Wage Bargaining and Comparative Advantage in EMU
This chapter examines the effects of shifts in wage-bargaining systems on the organization of firms in EMU member-states, and argues that the move to coordinated wage bargaining induced by the Maastricht criteria has led firms in EMU member-states to align their product market strategies with the existing institutional framework. Where wage bargaining became (or was) centrally coordinated, firms increasingly pursued high-end product market strate…
Converging Divergence
Recognizing that the institutional design of EMU leads to the co-ordination of national wage-bargaining structures, this article asks why bargaining systems in some EMU Member States have become co-ordinated and centralized, whereas others have become co-ordinated and decentralized. In contrast to neoliberal theory, it is argued that different bargaining levels are best explained by a country's competitive advantage: whilst countries with a compe…
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Das vorliegende Buch wurde im Januar 2001 am Fachbereich Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften der Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen als Dissertations schrift angenommen. Ich habe während der Arbeit an dies
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Is the online gig economy beyond national reach? A European analysis
With the emergence of the online gig economy, computer-based jobs can be completed by gig workers around the world. This raises the question whether the labour market for online gigs is truly boundless as distance no longer matters. Based on gravity models, we investigate the effect of geographical, institutional and cultural distance on almost 30 000 platform hirings between 26 European countries. While we find that online gig platforms are used…
When dichotomisation becomes a problem for the analysis of middle‐sized datasets
This article aims at illustrating the circumstances in which Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its ramifications, fs/QCA and MVQCA, become particularly useful tools of analysis. To this end, we discuss the most pertinent problem which researchers encounter when using QCA: the problem of contradicting observations. In QCA analysis, contradictions arise from the sheer number of cases and the problem of dichotomisation. In order to handle c…
Converging Divergence
Recognizing that the institutional design of EMU leads to the co-ordination of national wage-bargaining structures, this article asks why bargaining systems in some EMU Member States have become co-ordinated and centralized, whereas others have become co-ordinated and decentralized. In contrast to neoliberal theory, it is argued that different bargaining levels are best explained by a country's competitive advantage: whilst countries with a compe…
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms
Political economists and labour sociologists alike have studied how the skill specificity of workers can be explained, as it significantly affects workers' performance. However, the emergence of the gig economy may substantially change skill hiring and specificity in online labour markets because gig workers do not need formal educational credentials to offer their services. Instead, skills are "unbundled" from occupations, and platforms provide …
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Das vorliegende Buch wurde im Januar 2001 am Fachbereich Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften der Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen als Dissertations schrift angenommen. Ich habe während der Arbeit an dies
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Converging Divergence
Recognizing that the institutional design of EMU leads to the co-ordination of national wage-bargaining structures, this article asks why bargaining systems in some EMU Member States have become co-ordinated and centralized, whereas others have become co-ordinated and decentralized. In contrast to neoliberal theory, it is argued that different bargaining levels are best explained by a country's competitive advantage: whilst countries with a compe…
Wage Bargaining and Comparative Advantage in EMU
This chapter examines the effects of shifts in wage-bargaining systems on the organization of firms in EMU member-states, and argues that the move to coordinated wage bargaining induced by the Maastricht criteria has led firms in EMU member-states to align their product market strategies with the existing institutional framework. Where wage bargaining became (or was) centrally coordinated, firms increasingly pursued high-end product market strate…
When dichotomisation becomes a problem for the analysis of middle‐sized datasets
This article aims at illustrating the circumstances in which Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its ramifications, fs/QCA and MVQCA, become particularly useful tools of analysis. To this end, we discuss the most pertinent problem which researchers encounter when using QCA: the problem of contradicting observations. In QCA analysis, contradictions arise from the sheer number of cases and the problem of dichotomisation. In order to handle c…
Against the Schumpeterian mainstream
An institutionalist scholar, familiar with the numerous impacts of institutions, is likely to be puzzled by most entrepreneurship studies that have been published in leading economics, business and management journals over the past decades. Surely, these studies are far from agreeing on one homogeneous line of research. Disagreement concerns most fundamentally the question whether entrepreneurial ‘traits’ or ‘founding processes’ are the defining …
Ursachen des Ethnozentrismus in Deutschland
Varieties of entrepreneurship
While entrepreneurship researchers agree that institutions ‘matter’ for entrepreneurship, they also have a rather encompassing understanding of institutions as almost any external factor that influences entrepreneurship. Ultimately, this literature thus comes up with a long list of institutional factors that may explain entrepreneurial differences between countries. But which institutions are most influential? How do these institutions relate to …
A plea for varieties of entrepreneurship
Research into the link between national institutions and entrepreneurship is characterized by three shortcomings: First, clear-cut concepts of institutions are rare. Second, a parsimonious understanding of how a few core institutions influence entrepreneurship is missing. Third, scholars often ignore that incrementally innovative ventures constitute a distinct (and under-researched) type of entrepreneurship next to the (over-researched) form of r…
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems
The advent of online platforms has been considered to be one of the most significant economic changes of the last decade, with their emergence reflecting a longer trend of increasing contingent work, labor market flexibility, and outsourcing work to independent contractors. In this article, we conceptualize the so‐called gig economy along four dimensions, namely, online intermediation, independent contractors, paid tasks, and personal services. U…
Whom do nascent ventures search for? Resource scarcity and linkage formation activities during new product development processes
External linkages allow nascent ventures to access crucial resources during the process of new product development. Forming external linkages can substantially contribute to a venture’s performance. However, little is known about the paths of external linkage formation, as well as the circumstances that drive the choice to pursue one rather than another path. This gap deserves further investigation, because we do not know whether insights develop…
Is the online gig economy beyond national reach? A European analysis
With the emergence of the online gig economy, computer-based jobs can be completed by gig workers around the world. This raises the question whether the labour market for online gigs is truly boundless as distance no longer matters. Based on gravity models, we investigate the effect of geographical, institutional and cultural distance on almost 30 000 platform hirings between 26 European countries. While we find that online gig platforms are used…
“We don't need no (higher) education” - How the gig economy challenges the education-income paradigm
The empirical relationship between educational attainment and pay levels has been widely acknowledged in the labour-economic and labour-sociology literatures. While the causalities underlying this relationship are not conclusively established, researchers broadly agree that higher educational attainment leads to higher income levels in dependent employment, temporary hiring, and freelancing alike. The ‘gig economy’, where workers complete jobs me…
Platform adaptation to regulation
While online platforms were initially applauded for improving services in a range of sectors, they are currently being criticized for ignoring laws and regulations. We analyse the evolution of Helpling – the largest domestic cleaning platform company in Europe – by focusing on the ways that Helpling has adapted its platform to regulations in five national contexts (France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom). Using data on c…
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms
Political economists and labour sociologists alike have studied how the skill specificity of workers can be explained, as it significantly affects workers' performance. However, the emergence of the gig economy may substantially change skill hiring and specificity in online labour markets because gig workers do not need formal educational credentials to offer their services. Instead, skills are "unbundled" from occupations, and platforms provide …
New venture creation
We present a Schumpeterian model of new venture creation, under uncertainty, which explains the tradeoff between speed-to-breakeven and revenue-at-breakeven and relates this to the level of innovation. We then explore the tradeoffs between these outcomes empirically in a sample of 331 information and communication technology (ICT) ventures using a multi-input, multi-output stochastic frontier model. We estimate the contribution of financial capit…
Economics (12 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 works) · Entrepreneurship (5 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 works) · Gig economy (4 works)