Wissenschaftliche Literatur Corporation

Miriam Schoch

Der Prüfungsausschuss und das Audit Committee als Überwachungsinstanz in der börsennotierten Publikumsaktiengesellschaft

Schriften zum Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht

Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, in einer komparativen Zusammenschau die Unterschiede und Konvergenzen zwischen dem Prüfungsausschuss in der deutschen börsennotierten, konzernunabhängigen Aktiengesellschaft und dem Audit Committee in der US-amerikanischen konzernunabhängigen Public Corporation herauszuarbeiten. Dabei wird geklärt, inwieweit potentielle Unterschiede Überwachungsdefizite offenbaren und Anlass zu einem Angleichungsbedarf an die US-amerikanische Rechtslage…

Tina Busch

Verbal Modalities in Corporate Publications

A Cross-Cultural Approach

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In a time of globalization, business corporations have expanded their activities to the global market and communicate with local and global audiences competing with one another in terms of market share, financial investments, brand awareness, and audience trust. As national and corporate cultures meet and compete on various levels of business, a consistent corporate identity and a positive public image can be the crucial factors that decide between success or failure of a…

Max Springweiler

Pioneer Aviator in China

Lebenserinnerungen

The book primarily covers the period from 1920 to 1962 and tells the life story of a man who broke free from the narrow, impoverished circumstances of a small Black Forest town. Determination, intuition, diligence, discipline, and luck accompanied him on his journey, which led him, via the Traffic Pilots School (Berlin and List on Sylt) in 1931, to Eurasia in China, where he contributed to the establishment of Chinese civil aviation. He spent 31 years there during…

Elke Nickel

Die Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung in der internationalen Kreditvergabe

Praxis und Entwicklungstendenzen am Beispiel von Erdgas- und Erdölfernleitungen

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist eine umfassende Analyse und Diskussion der Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP) in der internationalen Kreditvergabe. Von den Umwelt- und Sozialstandards verschiedener Finanzierungsinstitutionen haben sich die Verfahrensrichtlinie (Environment Assessment) und die qualitativen Richtlinien der International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) und der International Finance Corporation (IFC) durchgesetzt. Beide Organisationen gehören zur…

Andrea Schalla

Water Supply and Sewage Disposal of the Nigerian Society

A Geographical Case Study of Human Usage and Management of the Water Resources in a Tropical Lowland Area

ORBIS – Wissenschaftliche Schriften zur Landeskunde

The African developing countries in the humid tropics with distinct wet and dry seasons have a marked and close network of rivers and streams which vary in size according to seasonal precipitation. However, the corresponding systems of water supply and sewage disposal for the population show considerable deficiencies which point to infrastructural and organizational problems. A wide and diverse spectrum of these defects is found in the catchment area of the Ogun River in…

Katharina Wöhlermann

Aspects of English Law in Contract

Implementation of Spousal Arrangements in Divorce Proceedings

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

This thesis focuses on the law concerning contracts made between spouses in an attempt to provide for their future after a breakdown of their marriage. This is described against the historical evolution of the permitted limits to which they could lawfully arrange matters as to principal (i.e. separation/divorce) and ancillary relief. As to the latter the three options which are open to divorcing spouses are either: [...]