Tag: Owned

Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries German Multinational Companies in the UK


Free Download H. Tüselmann, F. McDonald, A. Heise, "Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries: German Multinational Companies in the UK"
English | 2007 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 0230006965, 1349282847 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Uses new research to examine performance implications of different employee relations in German firms in the UK, Are they using the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK to escape the heavily regulated system in Germany? The authors explore best practice approaches common to the best performing subsidiaries.

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The Family in Business The Dynamics of the Family Owned Firm (Strategic Management Collection)


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English | 2011 | ISBN: 1606492780 | EPUB | pages: 150 | 0.4 mb
Family-owned businesses (FOBs) are a breed unto themselves. Though they share many features in common with other business models, they possess unique traits that clearly differentiate them. Similarly, though consultation to FOBs is in many respects what other businesses experience when seeking assistance, those features that set FOB consultation apart are so distinctive that failure to honor and understand them can (and does) too often lead to disaster. The needs of those family members seeking consultation share a portrait in some ways similar to those in non-FOBs, but in a majority of situations are so distinctive and potentially explosive that disaster lurks on the edges, ready to appear if not respected. The audience for this book is both consultants to FOBs and family members who are looking for such assistance. Both require knowledge of each other’s spheres of experience and perspective for effective consultation to occur – for the consultant, an awareness of family dynamics as intertwined with family business; for family members, a clarification of what can be expected and delivered. In addition to the interface between family dynamics and the family’s business, we will explore the key tasks in FOB consultation: succession planning, selection of the successor, conflict resolution, defining the role of family members in the business, how to involve the management team in succession planning, determining what happens after succession and building a board of advisors.

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Who Owned Waterloo Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852


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English | ISBN: 0192865285 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 4 MB
Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington’s death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity, guaranteeing that it would become a ubiquitous and multi-layered presence in British culture. By examining various forms of commemoration, celebration, and recreation, Who Owned Waterloo? demonstrates that Waterloo’s significance to Britain’s national psyche resulted in a different kind of war altogether: one in which civilian and military groups fought over and established their own claims on different aspects of the battle and its remembrance. By weaponizing everything from memoirs, monuments, rituals, and relics to hippodramas, panoramas, and even shades of blue, veterans pushed back against civilian claims of ownership; English, Scottish, and Irish interests staked their claims; and conservatives and radicals duelled over the direction of the country. Even as ownership was contested among certain groups, large portions of the British population purchased souvenirs, flocked to spectacles and exhibitions, visited the battlefield itself, and engaged in a startling variety of forms of performative patriotism, guaranteeing not only the further nationalization of Waterloo, but its permanent place in nineteenth century British popular and consumer culture.

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Multi-Owned Property in the Asia-Pacific Region Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities (2024)


Free Download Erika Altmann, Michelle Gabriel, "Multi-Owned Property in the Asia-Pacific Region: Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1137569875, 1349848972 | PDF | pages: 331 | 3.6 mb
This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region. Escalating demand for properties within global cities has created exuberance around apartment living; however less well understood are the restrictions on individual rights and responsibilities associated with collective living. In contrast to the highly populated and traditional communal housing arrangements of past Asian economies, we see an increasing focus on neo-liberalist, market-based policies associated with the rise of an Asian middle class shaping structural change from communal to individualistic. This edited collection unpacks the rights, restrictions and responsibilities of multi-owned property ownership across the Asia-Pacific region; examining the experiences of developers, strata-managers, owners and residents. In doing so, they highlight how the rights of one party affects the restrictions and responsibilities of others within different policy frameworks. This work will reach an interdisciplinary audience including scholars and practitioners of sociology, public policy, urban studies and planning, economics, property management and architecture.

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