Dr. Roland A. Stürz

Contributions to Collected Editions

Harhoff, Dietmar; Stuerz, Roland; Suyer, Alexander (2018). Impulse für Sprunginnovationen in Deutschland, in: Dietmar Harhoff, Henning Kagermann, Martin Stratmann (eds.), (2018). Impulse für Sprunginnovationen in Deutschland (acatech Diskussion), München: Herbert Utz Verlag.

• https://www.acatech.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/acatech_DISKUSSION_Sprunginnovation_Web_01.pdf

Further Publications, Press Articles, Interviews

Stuerz, Roland; Stumpf, Christian; Putfarken, Hannes; Harhoff, Dietmar (2021). Digitalisierung durch Corona? - Homeoffice im Februar 2021, bidt Analysen und Studien. München: bidt -Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation.

• https://www.bidt.digital/studie-homeoffice3/

Stuerz, Roland; Stumpf, Christian; Mendel, Ulrike; Harhoff, Dietmar (2020). Digitalisierung durch Corona? - Verbreitung und Akzeptanz von Homeoffice in Deutschland: Ergebnisse zweier bidt-Kurzbefragungen (bidt Analysen und Studien, Nr. 3). München: bidt -Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation . DOI

• Die Studie gibt Einblick in die Verbreitung und Akzeptanz von Homeoffice in Deutschland im
  Zuge der Coronakrise. Dazu hat das Bayerische Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) zwei kurze Onlinebefragungen Ende März 2020 und Mitte Juni 2020 unter jeweils rund 1.500 erwachsenen berufstätigen Internetnutzerinnen und -nutzern durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen u. a., wie häufig Befragte vor und während der Coronakrise von zu Hause
  aus arbeiteten und welche Gründe es zuvor für die Nicht-Nutzung von Homeoffice gab.
  Ferner wurde erhoben, wie gut die Arbeitgeberseite auf die Ausweitung von Homeoffice vorbereitet war und ob Schwierigkeiten bei der Nutzung der im Homeoffice eingesetzten Technik vorlagen. Weitere Fragen betrafen die Zufriedenheit mit der Situation bei der Arbeit von zu Hause aus sowie den Wunsch nach mehr Homeoffice und die Einschätzung der Entwicklung von Homeoffice-Angeboten nach der Krise.
• This study provides insights into the prevalence and practice of home office in Germany in
  the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Central to this, the Bavarian Research Institute
  for Digital Transformation (bidt) conducted two short online surveys at the end of March
  2020 and in mid-June 2020. Each one collected around 1,500 responses from working
  adult Internet users. The results show how often respondents worked from home before and during the coronavirus crisis as well as the reasons given for not having worked in home
  office before. Also investigated was how well employers were prepared for the increase in
  home office working, and whether there were any difficulties associated with the technology required to work from home. Other questions captured the satisfaction levels of people
  working from home as well as their desire to do so more often and their estimation of
  how opportunities to work from home might develop once the pandemic was over.

Stuerz, Roland (2018). Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte im Internet durch deutsche Verbraucher. Radio-Beitrag von Sebastian Filipowski und Miltiadis Oulios mit Interview, Cosmo-Radio, WDR, 23.01.2018 2018.

Stuerz, Roland; Suyer, Alexander; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hilty, Reto M. (2018). The Use of Copyright Protected Creative Online Content by German Consumers, Medien und Recht International, 15 (2), 51.

• The question of how copyright-protected content is used on the Internet and, particularly, which conclusions should be drawn from users’ behaviour has been the subject of intense debate for years. To what extent do Internet users download, stream or share content like music, films, series or Video games? What is the share of paid compared to free use? Do users consider their own conduct to be legal, and what are their motives for choosing potentially illegal forms of use?
  The research project carried out by the economic
  and legal departments of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition examines these issues gathering data with a large-scale, representative quantitative Survey of German consumers and analysing it.

Monographies

Stuerz, Roland (2014). Industrieevolution: Lokale Agglomeration, Markteintrittsbedingungen, vertikale Industriestrukturen und das Überleben von Firmen. München: Verlag Dr. Hut.

Discussion Papers

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hilty, Reto M.; Stuerz, Roland; Suyer, Alexander (2018). Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte im Internet durch deutsche Verbraucher - Ergebnisübersicht einer repräsentativen quantitativen Erhebung. München: Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb.

• https://www.ip.mpg.de/fileadmin/ipmpg/content/projekte/Nutzerverhalten_Kurzbericht.pdf

Stuerz, Roland (2015). Imprinting and Inertia – Density Delay Revisited, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 15-16.

• The study builds on previous research in the domain of organizational ecology and derives hypotheses about delayed effects of the competitive intensity at the time of founding of a new organization on mortality rates. It is argued that on the one hand, old incumbent organizations with more industry experience exert more competitive pressure than younger ones. On the other hand, a situation at founding where incumbents have to spread their competitive efforts among different entry cohorts should be favorable for new organizations. Data on four populations of motorcycle producers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia are used to test these predictions. Empirical results provide support for the hypotheses in the first three populations. Conflicting results for Australia might be explained with the special evolution of the industry there. As it is known, estimated effects of the density at founding in various populations usually can explain only part of the observed declines of the number of organizations after a peak (Carroll and Hannan, 2000). However, the implemented measures in this study yield lager effects than the estimated classical density delay effect alone in three of the populations. Hence, the study extends the existing theory helping to explain generally observable evolutionary patterns more fully. Furthermore, it provides important theoretical insights in the historical path-dependency of the evolution of industries and in firm survival.
• Available at SSRN

Stuerz, Roland (2014). Evolution and Firm Survival in Vertically Related Populations: The Case of the German Piano Industry, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Research Paper, No. 14-04.

• Research on the evolution of industries has devoted little attention to the development of vertical structures of firms and the emergence of new, specialized supplier populations along the value chain of an industry as industries mature. The change of the vertical industry structure and the co-evolution of subpopulations of suppliers lead to the creation of an interdependent community of organizational populations. However, the impact of vertically related upstream suppliers on the survival of downstream end product manufacturers remains under-researched. This study addresses this research gap and explores the impact of upstream suppliers on downstream survival of all German piano manufacturers (1705-1929). Quantitative event history analyses show that the number of suppliers of the most important core components exhibits a positive effect on firm survival of piano manufacturers. However, the number of firms in other supplier subpopulations does not always affect the exit rates of quality and non-quality end product manufacturers in the same way, which is probably related to the different degree of vertical integration of these two types of firms. The study contributes to the understanding of the forces driving industry evolution and firm survival and makes it easier to predict long-term industrial developments.
• Available at SSRN