Projektnummer

0069551

Zusammenfassung

To secure sufficient tax revenues in the context of free capital movements is an important European challenge. The team of business and economic historians aims to analyse the historical dynamic of the conflict of interest between nation states and multi-national-enterprises (MNE) in its complexity. Their methodological strategy is to analyse the problem of corporate taxation and its possible avoidance by breaking the topic down into case studies. The case studies are on the corporate history of four, influential European MNEs: ARBED, BP, Skoda-Works, and Unilever. The research strate...