Der Zusammenschluss mehrerer Bauunternehmen in Form einer Arbeitsgemeinschaft (ARGE) zahlt heutzutage zur taglichen Praxis bei der Realisierung einzelner Infrastrukturprojekte und anderer Grossprojekte in der Bauwirtschaft. Obwohl die Grunde zur Bildung einer ARGE mannigfaltiger Natur sein koennen, handelt es sich bei dieser Unternehmenskooperation stets um ein projektbezogenes Zweckbundnis. Aus diesem Charakteristikum einer ARGE ergeben sich eine Reihe gesellschafts- und steuerrechtlicher Fragestellungen. Zur Bewaltigung dieser Probleme hat sich im Laufe der Jahrzehnte eine gangige ARGE-Praxis entwickelt, die im Ergebnis eine Rechtsform "sui generis" hat entstehen lassen. Das Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, die wesentlichen Grundzuge der rechtlichen Gestaltung einer ARGE und deren Besteuerung aufzuzeigen und einer kritischen Analyse zu unterziehen.

Originally Published as Bulletin 22 from the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Gold Camps and Silver Cities is the most historically significant publication on Nineteenth Century Mining in Central and Southern Idaho. The Author describes the history and production of the districts in vivid detail and over 130 historical photo's many never seen before this publication help to give the reader an accurate history of what mining was like back then. Must have book for the Mining Historian and modern prospector alike. Now back in Print by Miningbooks.com

Empirische Untersuchungen belegen einen mittlerweile auch in Deutschland erhoehten Verbreitungsgrad der Due Diligence bei Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Differenziert wird bei den Untersuchungen zwischen einzelnen Teilreviews (Financial, Tax, Legal etc.) allerdings wurden bislang keine breiten empirischen Erkenntnisse zur Durchfuhrung der Due Diligence gewonnen. Die Fragestellung bei dieser Untersuchung lautet, in welchen Determinanten die Due Diligence tatsachlich durchgefuhrt wird. Determinanten der Due Diligence sind die Dauer der Due Diligence und Terminierung im Akquistitionsprozess, die Groesse und Zusammensetzung des Due Diligence-Teams, die Informationsquellen wahrend der Due Diligence, die eingesetzten Instrumente wie Checklisten u.a., die wirtschaftliche und wirtschaftsrechtliche Relevanz der Due Diligence sowie die Dokumentation und Berichterstattung uber die Due Diligence.

How has the firm of Swaine Adeney Brigg, one of Britain's oldest and most prestigious manufacturers of leather goods and umbrellas, survived for so long? What are the ingredients of its lasting success? This book charts how the company has kept pace with the shifting needs and demands of the marketplace, seizing trading opportunities, for the most part successfully, along the way. Swaine & Adeney began as makers of driving, riding, and hunting whips, becoming whip-makers to the royal family. With the coming of the railways, horse-drawn transport was greatly reduced and demand for whips shifted away from driving accessories to hunting and fashionable riding accessories. As the twentieth century dawned Swaine & Adeney survived the advent of the motor car by applying their leatherworking skills also to the making of luggage. Other equestrian accessory companies were absorbed: J. Kohler & Son, makers of coaching and hunting horns, and G. & J. Zair Ltd, whip-makers of Birmingham. In the dark days of 1943, Thomas Brigg & Sons, London's leading umbrella and walking-stick manufacturers joined forces with Swaine & Adeney, bringing with them their own long and impressive history of craftsmanship and royal patronage. Together, as Swaine Adeney Brigg, they emerged into the post-war era with renewed vigour. The hatters Herbert Johnson and the luggage-making arm of Papworth Industries were later added to the group. Neville Chamberlain, Margot Fonteyn, Augustus John, and Stirling Moss have been among the proud owners of the group's stylish products, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau both wore Herbert Johnson hats.

The story of Moto Guzzi is a story of survival. As one of Italy's oldest, and most legendary marques, Moto Guzzi had seen the height of success during the 1930s, and then the 1950s when they dominated 250 and 350cc Grand Prix racing. Their withdrawal from racing coincided with a period of stagnation until the company was sold to De Tomaso in 1973. During the 1970s the V7 Sport and Le Mans were at the forefront of the new superbike era, and later, with Dr John Wittner's help, embraced contemporary technology with the 1000cc Daytona. If one aspect characterises Moto Guzzi it is continuity. The great 500cc Falcone single ran from 1950 until 1976, and the V7, originally seeing the light of day in 1967, continued well into the 2010s. This continuity breeds loyalty, and Guzzi owners are a fiercely proud breed. Guzzis are not like other motorcycles, even Italian ones, and to qualify as a Guzzi owner requires a dedication and individuality that will be rewarded in a long term relationship.

At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures-some more legal than others. In the lead-up to Enron's demise, it was revealed that the company's financial success was sustained by a creatively planned and well-orchestrated accounting fraud. The story of Enron and its disastrous aftermath has since become a symbol of corporate excess and negligence, framed as an exceptional event in the annals of American business. With Risk and Ruin, Gavin Benke places Enron's fall within the larger history and culture of late twentieth-century American capitalism. In many ways, Benke argues, Enron was emblematic of the transitions that characterized the era. Like Enron, the American economy had shifted from old industry to the so-called knowledge economy, from goods to finance, and from national to global modes of production. Benke dives deep into the Enron archives, analyzing company newsletters, board meeting minutes, and courtroom transcriptions to chart several interconnected themes across Enron's history: the changing fortunes of Houston; the shifting attitudes toward business strategy, deregulation, and the function of the market among policy makers and business leaders; and the cultural context that accompanied and encouraged these broader political and economic changes. Considered against this backdrop, Enron takes on new significance as a potent reminder of the unaddressed issues still facing national and global economies. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

This is the story of the greatest might-have-been in the history of the fast food business. How did a company that began almost by accident become the innovation leader by 1960? What caused a decade-long slide that began right at the moment of their greatest success? Understanding begins with studying the experiences that forged Burger Chef and its leaders, and then learning from the mistakes corporations can make when they replace innovation and entrepreneurship with process and control-a lesson as important today as it was a half-century ago.

"Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Foerderpreis 2000 der Heinz Ansmann-Stiftung ausgezeichnet" Der Mehrheitsaktionar einer Aktiengesellschaft kann Interessen verfolgen, die dem Ziel der Maximierung des Beteiligungswerts der Gesellschaft entgegen stehen. Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie die Minderheitsaktionare vor den Interessen des Mehrheitsaktionars geschutzt werden koennen. Zu diesem Zweck wird eingangs untersucht, welchen Anspruchen der Minderheitenschutz aus gesamtwirtschaftlicher Sicht genugen muss. An diesen Massstaben wird der nach deutschem Recht gultige Schutz fur Minderheitsaktionare abhangiger Aktiengesellschaften ( 291-318 AktG) gemessen. Es wird gezeigt, dass das deutsche Recht keinen aus gesamtwirtschaftlicher Sicht geeigneten Schutzumfang bieten kann. Die Arbeit beschaftigt sich deshalb mit der Frage, ob eine UEbernahmeregelung die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Anspruche erfullt, die an ein Schutzsystem fur Minderheitsaktionare zu stellen sind und wie eine UEbernahmeregelung gestaltet werden muss, um diesen Anspruchen gerecht zu werden.

With an updated Afterword by the author
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies--once proud symbols of prosperity--through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit's boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves did? Complete with a new Afterword providing fresh insights into the continuing upheaval in the auto industry--the travails of Toyota, the revolving-door management and IPO at General Motors, the unexpected progress at Chrysler, and the Obama administration's stake in Detroit's recovery--"Crash Course" addresses a critical question: America bailed out GM, but who will bail out America?

Die Arbeit gibt einen UEberblick uber den Verlauf der Enteignung von "Nazi- und Kriegsverbrechern" im Land Brandenburg nach SMAD-Befehl Nr. 124 vom 30. Oktober 1945 bis zur UEberfuhrung der Vermoegenswerte in Volkseigentum 1949/50. Sie erlautert die gesetzlichen Grundlagen und ihre damaligen Auslegungen sowie die verwaltungsmassigen Ablaufe in den brandenburgischen Behoerden. Beleuchtet werden unter anderem die Bildung, Aufgaben und Arbeitsweise der Kommissionen fur Sequestrierung und Beschlagnahme und des Amtes zum Schutze des Volkseigentums. Die abschliessende Quellenedition gibt einen Einblick in den widerspruchlichen Prozess der Durchsetzung der Enteignungen.

Mit welchen Ablaufen sind Kooperationen zu planen und zu verhandeln? Wer soll fur diese Aufgaben verantwortlich gemacht werden? Wie kann eine Kooperation effizient in die normale Organisationsstruktur eines Unternehmens eingefugt werden? In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird dargestellt, wie deutsche Grossunternehmen diese Probleme loesen. Umfangreiche Interviews mit Praktikern aus M & A und Beteiligungsmanagement bilden die empirische Basis der Studie. Sie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Unternehmenskooperationen keinen organisatorischen Ausnahmezustand begrunden mussen. Trotzdem werden Kooperationen nach einiger Zeit wieder aufgeloest. Dies jedoch nicht wegen unzureichenden Erfolgs, sondern gerade weil sie ihren Zweck erfullt haben.

This highly readable book from Lou Richard, a 50 year veteran of International Corporate buisness and founder of Newport Capital, provides a practical explanation of key technical and tactical aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and also provides insightful real-life descriptions - "digressions" - of transactions as they happened, proving that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

As an increasing number of large corporations branch out into many fields of industry, public concern over the lateral extension of their power is aroused. Arguing that entry by large firms into concentrated industries may instead stimulate competition, Charles H. Berry analyzes the effect that such diversification has on corporate growth and on the structure and functioning of industrial markets. To identify a relationship between the growth of large corporations and the pattern of their diversifying activities, Professor Berry examines 460 of the largest U.S. industrial corporations. In tracing the effects of their entry into some 200 manufacturing industries, he develops new and striking evidence of the protected position of leading firms in concentrated industries, a position that can be effectively undermined by the diversification of more powerful corporations into these industries. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But outside of a few research labs and military training facilities, this tantalizing vision of the future was nothing but science fiction. Until 2012, when Oculus founder Palmer Luckey-then just a rebellious teenage dreamer living alone in a camper trailer-invents a device that has the potential to change everything. With the help of a videogame legend, a serial entrepreneur and many other colorful characters, Luckey's scrappy startup kickstarts a revolution and sets out to bring VR to the masses. As with most underdog stories, things don't quite go according to plan. But what happens next turns out to be the ultimate entrepreneurial journey: a tale of battles won and lost, lessons learned and neverending twists and turns-including an unlikely multi-billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, which shakes up the landscape in Silicon Valley and gives Oculus the chance to forever change our reality. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a super accessible and supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry.

Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, constituted a silence regarding the everyday experience of religiosity amongst those drawn to Christianity.

Ethnography of Faith is a detailed study of the ways in which people engage with and experience the religious in order to recognise and understand this suppressed voice of religiosity. In her analysis of the Luther-an church in the Soutpansberg of early twentieth century South Africa, Caroline Jeannerat listens closely to how people describe their own faith and that of others in the archive: in accounts of work done, in texts written for mission publications, in songs composed for church services, in letters and newspaper articles and in oral memories.

A careful reading of this archive – for breaks, for misunderstandings and oppositions, for sentiments of agreement, praise, compatibility and claims of shared experiences – identifies negotiations of meaning which give indications of conceptualisations of faith that stand in distinction to those of the missionaries and their expectations.

Stretching across three centuries, from the start of the Civil War through Prohibition to today, Bitter Brew is the engrossing, often scandalous saga of one of the wealth- iest and most colorful dynasties in American commerce: the Busch family of St. Louis, Missouri, the founders of the legendary Anheuser-Busch company. The critically acclaimed journalist William Knoedelseder tells the story of how the Busch patriarchs turned a small brewery into a multibillion dollar international corporation and trans- formed their product, Budweiser, into the iconic King of Beers. He paints a fascinating portrait of immense wealth and power accompanied by scandal, heartbreak, tragedy, and untimely death. A cautionary tale of prosperity, hubris, and loss, Bitter Brew is also a revealing chronicle of American progress and decline over the past 150 years.

"Selling under the Swastika" is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in legitimizing and stabilizing the regime. Historian Pamela Swett explores the extent of the transformation of the German ads industry from the internationally infused republican era that preceded 1933 through the relative calm of the mid-1930s and into the war years. She argues that advertisements helped to normalize the concept of a "racial community," and that individual consumption played a larger role in the Nazi worldview than is often assumed. Furthermore, "Selling under the Swastika" demonstrates that commercial actors at all levels, from traveling sales representatives to company executives and ad designers, enjoyed relative independence as they sought to enhance their professional status and boost profits through the manipulation of National Socialist messages.

The award-winning bestseller: "Stone's book, at last, gives us a Jeff Bezos biography that can fit proudly on a shelf next to the best chronicles of America's other landmark capitalists." -- "Forbes"""
Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.
Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. THE EVERYTHING STORE is the book the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.