Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Commercial - General

Traditionally, tapping into the power of competitive intelligence (CI) meant investing in the development of an internal CI unit or hiring outside consultants who specialized in CI. Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive's Guide to Intelligence offers an alternative: learn how to do it yourself and how to effectively manage the parts you cannot. The tools and techniques that will enable you to produce your own CI for your consumption are out there, and have been honed by decades of work. But, you cannot just adopt them - you have to adapt them.

Why? Because, when...

The taxation of multinational corporate groups has become a major concern in the academic and political debate on the future of international taxation. In particular the arm's length standard for the determination of transfer prices is under increasing pressure.
Many countries and international bodies are now taking a closer look at the use of transfer prices for profit shifting and are exploring alternative mechanisms such as formulary apportionment for the allocation of taxing rights.
With regard to this topic, this volume is the first to offer a concise analysis of transfer...

This book addresses two countervailing challenges to theory and policy in law and economics. The first is the rise of legal origins theory, which denies the comparative law view of convergence between common law and civil law by the assertion of an economic superiority of common law. The second is the series of economic crises in the very financial markets on which that assertion was based. Both trends unsettled certainties about the rule of law and institutional economics.

Meeting legal origins theory in its main areas of political science, sociology and economics, the book extends...

In der Schweiz haben gewisse Steuerpflichtige die Wahl zur Besteuerung nach dem Aufwand. Wegen der stetig steigenden Anzahl pauschal besteuerter Personen sowie der daraus resultierenden Steuerertrage ist dieses Besteuerungsmodell fur die Befurworter ein wirksames Instrument im internationalen Steuerwettbewerb und zur Generierung von auerfiskalischem Nutzen. Die Gegner sehen in der Besteuerung nach dem Aufwand vor allem eine verfassungswidrige und willkurliche Privilegierung vermogender auslandischer Staatsangehoriger. Folglich ist die Pauschalbesteuerung im Inland umstritten....

This book provides a unique comparative and global analysis of the regulation of disclosure in financial (securities) markets. It is written by two authors who represent both the new world (Australia) and the old world (Germany). The authors present their research in the global business context, with legal and regulatory perspectives including some references from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America.

After every boom and bust, legislators pass new disclosure legislation, often in a heated environment fuelled by politics and the media. Little regard is paid to existing...