TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena T1 - Is Ultra-Broadband Enough? The Relationship between High-Speed Internet and Entrepreneurship in Brandenburg T2 - International Journal of Technology : (IJTech) N2 - Recent improvements in broadband infrastructure in Europe have introduced augmented possibilities for both businesses and individuals. As expected, the provision of high-speed internet connections for European users will be an important step towards Industry 4.0 as well as a better entrepreneurial milieu. Still, though scientific literature is replete with examples of how modern communication technologies boost productivity and economic performance, not much research indicates how broadband technologies may bolster entrepreneurship, especially at a very detailed, municipal level. The aim of this study was to find out whether high-speed broadband provision had any effect on higher firm entry rates in Brandenburg, Germany. This region was chosen because of its favorable position in the vicinity of the capital state, Berlin. We carried out an ordinary less square estimated regression analysis using a dataset built for 417 municipalities. The results show that ultra-broadband provision had no significant impact on well-performing municipalities and those located close to Berlin, with no impact in the general model, and also had a negative correlation in underperforming and peripheral areas (significant at a 5% level). This leads to the conclusion that advanced broadband infrastructure does not automatically translate into higher firm entry rates; there is no such urgency in the need for speed, as it might appear at first glance. KW - Broadband KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Germany KW - ICT Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i6.4435 SN - 2087-2100 SN - 2086-9614 VL - 11 IS - 6 SP - 1103 EP - 1114 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Khan, Naveed Ahmad A1 - Michalk, Silke A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Hafiz, Ali Javed T1 - If You Aim Higher Than You Expect, You Could Reach Higher Than You Dream: Leadership and Employee Performance T2 - Economies N2 - Leadership is about lifting a person’s vision, raising their productivity to higher standards and creating a personality beyond their usual capabilities. Our study examines the Pygmalion effect and leader-member exchange (LMX) on employee task performance via organizational commitment. The data was collected from 280 middle-level managers from top ten banks in Pakistan. This study offers three main contributions to the literature. First, our results discover a strong link between the Pygmalion effect, LMX and employees’ task performance through mediation of organizational commitment. Secondly, our study indicates that leaders should have higher quality relationships with employees and higher task performance expectations. Finally, most previous studies focused on leadership approaches or have been conducted in western developed countries. To our knowledge, this study is a unique contribution to the literature on leaders’ expectations in changing and diverse environments, as in underdeveloped countries like Pakistan. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/10/6/123 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/economies10060123 SN - 2227-7099 VL - 10 IS - 6 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Khan, Naveed Ahmad A1 - Mihoci, Andrija A1 - Michalk, Silke A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Javed, Hafiz Ali T1 - Employee Performance Measures appraised by Training and Labour Market: Evidence from the Banking Sector of Germany T2 - Administrative Science N2 - Our paper examines the impact of training outputs and employment factors on several facets of employee performance while supporting managerial decision-making in the banking sector. First, we introduce four performance measures in individual productivity assessment. Second, three identified groups of covariates are associated with these measures, namely, the training method success, delivery of knowledge, and labor market performance feedback. Based on our empirical results from Germany, we suggest that response-related decisions are accompanying bank employees’ profiles and appraisal. In particular, we form decision-making functions and finally show that the banking industry successfully balances between internal and external factors in optimizing employees’ performance. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/12/4/143 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12040143 SN - 2076-3387 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 13 ER -