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Business ethics as a discipline leans on cases but flourishes by thorough analysis and reflection. The present volume offers both. After three introductory chapters into business ethics eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact, are extensively described and analysed. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken's struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever...

Internet communication is the lifeblood of countless nonprofit organizations, yet there exists no specific law to provide for its regulation. Without solid legal guidance, nonprofits risk not only missing out on the unlimited opportunities that the Internet has to offer, but also jeopardizing their tax-exempt status. The Nonprofits' Guide to Internet Communications Law analyzes and explains the laws applicable to Internet communications by nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit law expert Bruce Hopkins...

Das Handels-und Gesellschaftsrecht gehort zu den Pflichtlehrveranstaltungen in rechts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiengangen. Zudem ist ein grundlegendes Verstandnis dieser Rechtsgebiete auch fur viele Berufstatige und Unternehmer unabdingbar.

Das Lehrbuch Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht bietet eine leicht verstandliche und praxisnahe Einfuhrung in die rechtlichen Grundlagen. Beispiele und Zusammenfassungen vermitteln dem Leser Zusammenhange, die ihn befahigen, eigenstandig rechtliche Probleme zu erkennen und diese angemessen anzugehen.

Das Europarecht wirkt in nahezu alle Bereiche des taglichen Lebens hinein. Davon bleibt auch das Steuerrecht nicht verschont. Einwirkungen erfolgen unter anderem uber Verordnungen und Richtlinien, die Gewahrleistung von Grundfreiheiten fur Unionsburger, die Beihilfekontrolle der Kommission und faktisch uber den Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme. Ohne Kenntnis dieser Einwirkungen lasst sich heute kein Steuerrecht mehr betreiben. Am Beispiel der direkten Unternehmensbesteuerung werden die europarechtlichen Grundlagen und Konsequenzen dieses Prozesses, seine bisherigen Resultate und weiteren...

The degree of development reached by cooperatives of different sectors throughout the world, which among others led to the UN declaring 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, needs to be accompanied by a similar development of corresponding legislation. To this end, a better knowledge of cooperative law from the comparative point of view, as has already been established for other types of enterprises, becomes of great importance. This book strives to fill this gap, and is divided into four parts. The first part offers an analytic and conceptual framework with which to understand,...

This book explores from an English law and Institutional perspective the various types of injunctive relief that are available to a party before and during arbitral proceedings.

In particular, this book examines the basis of the power of English Courts to grant such injunctions and explains when such injunctions will be granted. It considers any limitations attached to such injunctions and the relationship between section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996 and section 37 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.

It also provides an in-depth analysis of case law and the emerging trends in...