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Public events: Once a year, the GUG organizes a public lecture event in cooperation with a partner company. Participants from academia, economy, politics and the media speak out on current issues, the historical aspects of which are also illuminated. The topics that have been discussed to this date include e.g. «Corporate Succession», «Corporate Culture», «Self-Employment as a Model for Success or a Phenomenon of Crisis?», «The Responsibility of the Entrepreneur», «Women in Executive Positions in the Economy», «Corporations in China», and «The Future of Mobility». The event of 2009 was dedicated to the topic: «German firms and the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1989 – break or continuity? »

Scientific symposia: By means of scientific symposia on selected topics, the GUG creates impulses for historical research. GUG aims at revealing gaps within research, and at providing the necessary space for the discussion of current concerns. In the past years, topics like «Innovation in Banking», «Economic Elites of the 20th Century – Continuity and Mentality», «Corporations and Old Age Provision», «Markets of Knowledge within Corporations», «Corporate Networks: A Historical Form of Organization with Future?» or «Enterprises and Art»have been addressed. In 2009 the scientific symposium will deal with «Privatization and Nationalization». It will take place on October 9-10, 2009 in Vienna. For further information see the CFP.

Research groups: In order to promote scientific discourse, the GUG organizes several internationally constituted research groups. Their members are renowned university professors, junior researchers and archivists. Discussions and publications constantly pose new questions, which provide impulses for further scientific interchange. The current research groups deal with banking and insurance history, the history of small and medium-sized companies, traffic history, the media enterprises and marketing history.