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Model Joint Venture Agreement with Commentary
This comprehensive resource provides a complete draft of a Model Joint Venture Agreement based on a hypothetical fact pattern Also, provided is incisive commentary explaining the meaning and function of each provision. A checklist is included addressing the issues surrounding the formation of the Joint Venture and the ongoing legal rights and obligations between the parties. The Agreement plus other related documents are replicated on a companion CD-ROM and ready for tailoring to your transaction..
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The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing
Based on five years of close observation of students, writing and collaborative planning—the practice in which student writers take the roles of planner and supporter to help each other develop a more rhetorically sophisticated writing plan—foremost cognitive composition researcher Linda Flower redefines writing in terms of an interactive social and cognitive process and proposes a convincing and compelling theory of the construction of negotiated meaning. Flower seeks to describe how writers construct meaning. Supported by the emerging body of social and cognitive research in rhetoric, education, and psychology, she portrays meaning making as a literate act and a constructive process. She challenges traditional definitions of literacy, adding to that concept the elements of social literate practices and personal literate acts. In Flower’s view, this social cognitive process is a source of tension and conflict among the multiple forces that shape meaning: the social and cultural context, the demands of discourse, and the writer’s own goals and knowledge. Flower outlines a generative theory of conflict. With this conflict central to her theory of the construction of negotiated meaning, she examines negotiation as an alternative to the metaphors of reproduction and conversation. It is through negotiation, Flower argues, that social expectations, discourse conventions, and the writer’s personal goals and knowledge become inner voices. The tension among these forces often creates the hidden logic behind student writing. In response to these conflicting voices, writers sometimes rise to the active negotiation of meaning, creating meaning in the interplay of alternatives, opportunities, and constraints. .
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CRAFTING PEACE: Power Sharing and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars
The recent efforts to reach a settlement of the enduring and tragic conflict in Darfur demonstrate how important it is to understand what factors contribute most to the success of such efforts. In this book, Caroline Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie review data from all negotiated civil war settlements between 1945 and 1999 in order to identify these factors.What they find is that settlements are more likely to produce an enduring peace if they involve construction of a diversity of power-sharing and power-dividing arrangements between former adversaries. The strongest negotiated settlements prove to be those in which former rivals agree to share or divide state power across its economic, military, political, and territorial dimensions..
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Implementing Negotiated Agreements: The Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace
Most intrastate peace agreements are implemented inadequately or not at all. This leads to renewed tensions and often to a resumption of armed conflict This book examines why the record of implementation of peace agreements between governments and population groups within their state is so poor, and what is being and can be done to change this. Most of the authors write from first hand experience, having played major roles in the negotiation and implementation of intrastate peace agreements in different parts of the world. They provide unique insights into the difficulties faced by parties to peace agreements and explore ways to overcome these. The diversity of authors and of the peace processes in which they have been involved ensures a rich, new and important contribution to the understanding of intrastate peace processes..
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Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1820
This innovative volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing the latest developments in historiography of the period. The volume takes a comparative approach, with individual essays examining governance in British, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Native America. As a whole, these essays present the argument that coercive imperial authority has been vastly overrated in previous scholarship due to factors like distance, the primacy of trade over politics, and the refusal of "colonized" peoples to recognize European authority.While some of the essays look at the relationships between imperial centers and colonial peripheries, others examine interactions and experiences of people at the peripheries of their respective empires, including Native Americans, African Americans and Euroamericans. No other book collects essays on the New World empires in one volume. Contributors:Ida Altman, H.V. Bowen, Philip Boucher, Amy Turner Bushnell, Leslie Choquette, Christine Daniels, Jack P. Greene, Mary Karasch, Wim Klooster, Elizabeth Mancke, Peter S. Onuf, John Jay Tepaske, David J. Weber, Michael Zuckerman..
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Tribal Warfare in Organizations: Turning Tribal Conflict into Negotiated Peace (The Business Strategist Series)
When the marketing department complains about the production staff, or the sales force makes promises customer service says it can't deliver, this is tribal warfare -- those interdepartmental conflicts that form one of the biggest and most costly productivity problems in organizations. Understanding how to recognize and deal with tribal conflict becomes extremely important for company survival and growth. Peg Neuhauser shows how to bridge the gap between factions that inevitably arise in organizations -- and lessen tribal warfare, lower employee stress, improve managerial effectiveness and promote higher productivity..
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The M & A Process: A Practical Guide for the Business Lawyer
The M & A Process resource addresses the steps for actually doing the deal in an M & A transaction This detailed guide is designed for all customary structures of acquisition transactions (i.e. merger, asset sale, stock sale, share exchanges) and covers the purchase of both publicly and privately held businesses. However, the book covers a greater emphasis on private deals..
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Politics of Transition: The Hidden History of South Africa's Negotiated Settlement
This brave publication examines the politics behind the negotiations of South Africa's dramatic transition to democracy in the early 1990s. It will be of importance to anyone interested in South African politics, constitutional law and human rights..
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International Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence
This new publication is a compilation of responses to a Model Questionnaire that provides the reader with an overview of essential considerations that lawyers need to know in planning and conducting mergers and acquisitions due diligence for 37 countries. A copy of the Model Questionnaire is included and can also be used as a helpful guide when embarking on due diligence in a country not covered in this publication..
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