Group of companies

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A corporate group is a set of legally independent companies that belong together due to certain similarities. If the companies form a contractually linked unit, one speaks of a corporate group . This can be a corporation or another group of companies that cooperate with one another, such as B. a newspaper group or the savings bank finance group .

Situation in Europe

In Europe, especially in Germany, a group of companies is often understood as a group, that is, a hierarchical association of dominant and dependent companies ( affiliated companies ) under uniform management. In Germany, this definition is based on Section 18 of the Stock Corporation Act and in the European Union on Directive 83/349 / EEC . However, the group term coined in Germany is not applicable to all European legal systems . For example, there is no exact equivalent in English company law for the terms “controlling company” and “unified management”; various EU member states do not have any domination agreements . Therefore z. For example, the English corporate group and the French groupe de sociétés are not legally the same as a group. What they all have in common, however, is the hierarchical structure.

Situation in China

In Chinese economics, too, the term corporate group was derived from the German corporate term. It is understood as a "large economic organization based on the socialist public property order, the core of which consists of one or a few associated, economically powerful companies, and which has submitted to uniform management and management".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Group of companies . duden.de; accessed on August 6, 2014.
  2. ^ A b Herbert Wiedemann : The corporate group in private law . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3-16-645297-5 , p. 6 .
  3. ↑ Solveig Lieder: Cross-border corporate restructuring in the light of the EuInsVO . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-429-7 , p. 27 .
  4. ↑ Uwe Blaurock : Comments on a European law of the group of companies . In: Klaus Peter Berger (Ed.): Festschrift for Otto Sandrock on his 70th birthday . Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8005-1242-3 , pp. 81 f .
  5. ↑ Xiaoye Wang: Monopolies and Competition in the Chinese Economy . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-16-146160-6 , pp. 57 ff .