Gabriele Suder - Doing Business in Europe

3rd Edition

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Gabriele Suder, Johan Lindeque 2018

First published 2018

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Many people have helped make this third edition of Doing Business in Europe possible. The authors would like to thank the following people, firms and organizations for their valuable direct or indirect help, suggestions, intellectual and collegial support, and submission of material.

Yet first of all, we would like to thank our families for their great support and patience.

Second, thanks to our colleagues, friends and contributors. The comments, suggestions, work arrangements and essential information provided have proven invaluable.

Third, among contributors we would like to particularly thank our case study authors and co-authors, for the excellent illustrations they helped put together to illustrate hands-on what Doing Business in Europe is really about. Special thanks to Dr Jenny Hillemann at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dr Mike Szymanski at Tecnologico de Monterrey, and his student Alex Davies at the University of Victoria, Professor Andrei Panibratov, Saint-Petersburg State University, Bojan Pantic, Saint-Petersburg State University, Dr Stephan Hartmann, Osram Regensburg, Professor Christopher Stehr, Polymundo Heilbronn, Rui Torres de Oliveira at the University of Queensland and Dr Daniel Rottig, Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr Jenny Hillemann kindly supervised and produced case studies with her students at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, some of which are comprised here, including (in no specific order) Damiaan Bogaerts, Mattias Bott, Victor Donck, Mirella Lancz, Sofian Ouahchi, Zhilling Luo, Julie Swaenen, Wito Van Oijstaeijen, Elise Cuyvers, Sepideh Asghari, Ermir Daji, Pieter Deleye, Simon Hens, Celine Cassimon and Mirte Van Thillo, Elise Mankiyan, Arne Aertbelin, Caroline Verhelst, Kaat Wouters, Anton Braet, Lydia Kljajic, Yeidy Sosa Vincente, Paloma Lopez Bondi, Sam Heuten, Tim Biemans, Sofie Blond, Lynn Van Oproy, Mathijs Wouters, Evelien Nauwelaerts, Steven Verwerft, Yun Jin, Elien Schildermans, Wassim El Azraki, Peter Pava, Kirsten De Hantsetters, Seppe Dons, Sebastien Dinet and Gauthier Kluft. Thanks to all. We also sincerely thank all online case contributors