...Second career Self-employment and becoming an entrepreneur as a second career for dependent employees The responsibility for the contents of this report lies with EIM. Quoting numbers or text in papers, essays and books is permitted only when the source is clearly mentioned. No part of this publication may be copied and/or published in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written permission of EIM. EIM does not accept responsibility for printing errors and/or other imperfections. Contents 1 Theoretical framework 7 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 The transition process: Heuristical tool 8 1.3 Differences between start-ups: Dependent employee versus other types 10 1.4 Demarcation 11 1.5 Contents of the report 12 2 Entrepreneurship in the EU 15 2.1 Facts and figures 15 2.2 Entrepreneurs in the EU 20 2.3 Previous experience of starting entrepreneurs in the EU 24 3 Synthesis 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Legal definition of self-employed 31 3.3 General requirements related to start-ups 33 3.4 Financing the start-up of a business 34 3.5 Insolvency and seizure procedures 35 3.6 Social security systems in general 35 3.7 Social security: Unemployment 36 3.8 Social security: Sickness 39 3.9 Social security: Disability 40 3.10 Social security: Medical costs 40 3.11 Social security: Old age 41 3.12 Social...
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...Strength. Performance. Passion. Sustainable Development Report 2007 Company Profile ACC – India’s first name in cement ACC Limited, or ACC as it is popularly known, is India’s foremost manufacturer of cement. Formerly called The Associated Cement Companies Limited, ACC’s corporate office is located in Mumbai. Its operations are spread throughout the country with 14 modern cement factories having a total installed capacity of 22.4 million tones of cement per annum, a string of 20 sales offices and a countrywide distribution network of over 9,000 dealers. It has a workforce of more than 10,000 persons. A subsidiary company, ACC Concrete Limited, is a leading manufacturer of ready mix concrete that has 30 plants across the country. Established in 1936 as a merger of ten cement companies, ACC is today closely associated with the Holcim Group of Switzerland. Since inception, the company has been a pioneer and trendsetter in cement and concrete, with a unique track record of innovative research and product development. It is an important benchmark for the cement industry in respect of its production, marketing human resource management and other processes. ACC has achieved spectacular results in the utilization of two industrial wastes – namely slag from steel plants and fly ash from thermal power stations – to make blended cements that offer unique advantages to concrete. Today ACC offers total solutions for waste management including testing, suggestions for reuse, recycling...
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...university/faculty. I furthermore cede copyright of the dissertation in favour of The University of the Free State. .............................................................................. Signature .............................................................................. Date [ii] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A project of this nature could not have been complete without the support of some people. At this juncture, I will like to recognize the assistance of such people who made indispensable contributions towards the realisation of this work. I received much technical support from my supervisor Prof Ebben Van Zyl and cosupervisors Dr Petrus Nel and Dr Estelle Boshoff. I appreciate all the efforts they made in seeing that this study is diligently done. I remain particularly indebted to them. Special gratitude goes to my entire family especially my parents Mr & Mrs Nde for the moral and financial support they gave me my sister, Adeline; my brothers Davidson and Jeff and my friends Neneh and Silas for the constant love, concern and encouragement they have shown to me. [iii] TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION...
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...Innovative Business Practices Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Innovative Business Practices: Prevailing a Turbulent Era, Edited by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou This book first published 2013 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2013 by Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4604-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4604-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Knowledge Hybridization: An Innovative Business Practices to Overcome the Limits of the Top-Down Transfers within a Multinational Corporation Hela Chebbi, Dorra Yahiaoui, Demetris Vrontis and Alkis Thrassou Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 17 Rethinking Talent Management in Organizations: Towards a Boundary-less Model Carrie Foster, Neil Moore and Peter Stokes Chapter Three .......
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...Wirtschaftswissenschaft des - Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Gerhard-Mercator-Universita t Gesamthochschule Duisburg Vorgelegt von Dipl.-O k. Carola Krieger 46537 Dinslaken 2001 PDF wurde mit FinePrint pdfFactory-Prüfversion erstellt.http://www.context-gmbh.de II Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis...................................................................................... VI Abku rzungsverzeichnis ..................................................................................... IX I. Fragestellung.................................................................................................... 1 II. Forschungsstand und Vorgehensweise ........................................................... 5 III. Aufbau der Arbeit.......................................................................................... 8 1. Strategische Allianzen................................................................................... 11 1.1 Definition der Strategischen Allianz und ihrer charakteristischen Merkmale ........................................................................................................................... 14 1.2 Herleitung des theoretischen Bezugsrahmens............................................. 17 1.2.1 Kostenrechnerische Ansa tze ................................................................ 19 1.2.2 Strategische Ansa tze ............................................................................ 20 1.2.3 Transaktionskostenanalyse...
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