Founders in Liberal Professions: the First Wave of the Nuremberg Panel Survey

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1 Knut Wenzig L E H R S T U H L F U R SOZIOLOGIE Founders in Liberal Professions: the First Wave of the Nuremberg Panel Survey Third Krakow-Nürnberg Scientific Seminar Krakow, September 24, 2003

2 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Overview liberal professions in germany the first wave of the Nuremberg panel survey: some key informations evaluation of the consulting process results and questions

3 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Liberal professions in germany legal definition specific professional qualification or creative ability supply of a service in a personal, self dependent, professionally independent way services of a high grade (dis-)advantages no trade tax (levied by local authorities on business profits) no legal obligation to keep records simplified accounting compulsory membership of professional organizations or chambers legal limitations (e.g. marketing)

4 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions The Nuremberg panel survey: some key informations respondents are clients of the The Nuremberg Institute for Liberal Professions (IFB), 1062 of the adresses used, 163 of them undeliverable Year Seminars individual advice to total consultation business plan total

5 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Key informations 2: occupational areas ecological 3% pedagogic 1% consulting 13% others 8% culture/art 11% engineering 21% media/comm. 15% medical 9% social 9% law/finance 10% n=245

6 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Key informations 3: some figures 198 personalised detailed questionnaires 51 anonymous detailed questionaires 136 personalised short questionaires total: 385 questionaires 76.5 % went into business 7.6 % of them gave up

7 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Evaluation of the consulting process global comparison of different institutions evaluation if the services of various institution on the whole (scale 1 5) comparision on advice in different topics marks (1 6) for IFB and others in total evaluation of the three different IFB-services agreement to slogans (yes/no) (evaluation of the service quality at the IFB) various items (scale ++ to --)

8 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Global comparison of institutions IFB friends other regional institution total anonymous personalised advocate professional organisation management consultant chamber of commerce and industry bank local tax office federal employment office 1=very useful, 5=absolute dispensable

9 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Comparison on advice legal status (lib. profession) legal form fake/false self-employment conception raising of capital financial budgeting legal basis personal qualification marketing liquidity taxes protection against risks accountancy mark(others)-mark(ifb)

10 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Advice in different topics (IFB) legal status (lib. profession) legal form conception total anonymous personalised fake/false self-employment financial budgeting personal qualification marketing raising of capital legal basis taxes liquidity protection against risks accountancy 1=best, 6=worst mark

11 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Advice in different topics (others) personal qualification conception legal status (lib. profession) total anonymous personalised legal form financial budgeting taxes fake/false self-employment marketing protection against risks accountancy raising of capital legal basis liquidity 1=best, 6=worst mark

12 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions useful got tips make use of it again favour of public support assured practical support obligation showed weak points made failures anyway not enough compressed have regret superfluous kept from founding responsible for success too expensive total anonymous personalised agreement in % Evaluation of the seminars

13 Liberal Professions The Nuremberg panel survey Evaluation Results and questions Results and questions Evaluation outcome shows strengths and weaknesses within IFB s consulting service. The respondent s commitment to the survey is crititcal to his evaluation. What s the reason for the difference between the global and differentiated evaluations? Your questions?