David Storey on Regional Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneurial League Table of German Regions 1895 and 2019

Custom Field Value: March 24, 2025

Together with Maria Greve and Michael Wyrwich I contributed to a book that honours my good colleague David Storey who passed away in July 2023. In this article we describe and analyze the long-term development of self-employment in German regions between 1895 and 2019. Based on rankings (“league tables”) for the two years we identify those regions where the relative level of self-employment significantly increased (‘leapfroggers’), and those where the level of self-employment as compared to other regions deteriorated (‘plungers’). While there is some persistence of regional self-employment despite all the disruptive changes that Germany experience during the period of analysis, we also find and discuss considerable changes of regional levels of entrepreneurial activity.

The article is titled „David Storey on Regional Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneurial League Table of German Regions 1895 and 2019“ and is published in George Saridakis and Jay Mitra (eds.): Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Collection of Research, Policy and Personal Insights in Honour of Contributions of David Storey. Cham 2025: Palgrave Macmillan.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72190-8_11