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- Christoph Müller
- Henrik Riedel
- Markus Schiebold
Abstract
Im Fokus der Messung von Bürokratiekosten lagen im letzten Jahrzehnt fast ausschließlich die sogenannten Informationspflichten (z.B. Antrags-, Statistik- oder Dokumentationspflichten). Es ist jedoch zu vermuten, dass die aus Informationspflichten resultierenden Kosten einen vergleichsweise geringen Anteil an den gesamten Regulierungskosten der Wirtschaft oder auch anderer Normadressaten ausmachen. An diese Hypothese anknüpfend sind in verschiedenen europäischen Staaten, aber auch im angelsächsischen Raum, in den letzten Jahren Verfahren entwickelt und erprobt worden, mit deren Hilfe nicht nur die Kosten von Informationspflichten, sondern auch der sogenannten inhaltlichen Pflichten gemessen werden können. Begleitend hierzu wurden erste Instrumente entwickelt, um sog. „Sowieso-Kosten“, „Zusatzkosten“, „Opportunitätskosten“ oder „Irritationseffekte“ quantitativ oder qualitativ zu beschreiben. Insbesondere den Sowieso-Kosten, die bei Messungen herausgerechnet werden müssen, weil sie für den Unternehmer nützlich sind und deshalb ohnehin anfallen, und den Opportunitätskosten kommt eine wichtige Bedeutung zu. Die Opportunitätskosten werden bei den bisherigen Messungen nicht erfasst, obwohl jede unternehmerische Handlung vom Denken in Opportunitäten beeinflusst ist: Für welches Projekt, für welche Tätigkeit soll der Unternehmer seine Zeit investieren, und was entgeht ihm, nur weil er Regulierungen erfüllen muss. Bisher existierte jedoch kein integriertes Verfahren, mit dem alle Arten von Regulierungskosten ermittelt werden können. An dieser Stelle setzt das Modellprojekt zur Regulierungskostenmessung an, das die Bertelsmann Stiftung in Zusammenarbeit mit der KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft und unter wissenschaftlicher Begleitung von Professor Dr. Christoph Müller, Universität St. Gallen, von August 2008 bis April 2009 durchgeführt hat. / In the last decade, measurements of bureaucracy costs focused almost exclusively on the so-called information duties such as the requirements to submit applications, statistics or documents. It must be assumed, however, that the costs resulting from information duties account for a relatively small share of the overall regulation costs to be borne by trade and industry and any other bodies and groups affected by rules and regulations. In the wake of this hypothesis, procedures have been developed and tested in various European countries but also in the Anglo-Saxon area, by means of which it is not only the costs of information duties but also those of the so-called substantive compliance costs that can be measured. To accompany these procedures, a few first instruments were developed which serve to describe so-called non-influenceable costs, additional costs, opportunity costs and irritation effects either quantitatively or qualitatively. Non-influenceable costs, in particular, which have to be subtracted out of the measurements because they are useful for entrepreneurs and arise in any case, as well as opportunity costs, must be accorded a great deal of significance. Opportunity costs were not taken into account by previous measurements although every entrepreneurial act is influenced by thinking in terms of opportunities: which project and which activity should an entrepreneur invest his time in, and what does he miss out on simply because he has to comply with regulations. This is where the model project for the measurement of regulation costs comes in, which the Bertelsmann Foundation ran in cooperation with the auditors, KPMG AG, and under the scientific supervision of Professor Dr. Christoph Müller, University of St.Gallen, from August 2008 to April 2009.
Suggested Citation
Christoph Müller & Henrik Riedel & Markus Schiebold, 2009.
"Neue Ansätze der Regulierungskostenmessung für KMU,"
ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 57(2), pages 85-114.
Handle:
RePEc:dah:aeqzfk:v57_y2009_i2_q2_p85-114
DOI: 10.3790/zfke.57.2.85
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