The GUG’s objectives
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The GUG is an institution for the promotion of exchange between scholars, partner of enterprises, and contact between scholarship and business.
Institution for the promotion of exchange between scholars:
The GUG provides all interested academics with a forum for scientific exchange, primarily by organizing lecture events, symposia and study groups.
Partner of enterprises:
The GUG assists enterprises in all matters regarding research, communication, and presentation of their history. It provides expertise in building up company archives in co-operation with the Association of German Business Archivists (Vereinigung der deutschen Wirtschaftsarchivare e.V., vdw), and supports the research, documentation, and publication of business histories.
The GUG provides all interested academics with a forum for scientific exchange, primarily by organizing lecture events, symposia and study groups.
Partner of enterprises:
The GUG assists enterprises in all matters regarding research, communication, and presentation of their history. It provides expertise in building up company archives in co-operation with the Association of German Business Archivists (Vereinigung der deutschen Wirtschaftsarchivare e.V., vdw), and supports the research, documentation, and publication of business histories.
Contact between scholarship and business:
Business history research is a process of gaining new insights that depends on the participation and support of a broad spectrum of enterprises and scholars. Accordingly, the GUG understands itself as a network that promotes the dialogue between enterprises and scholars. Through this network, enterprises can introduce new questions into academic debate.
Please support historical research:
GUG fills gaps in research through sponsored non-profit projects such as studies about no longer existing companies such as Ruhrgas or the Hertie department store chain (Karg Foundation) or the search for Kulturgütern / cultural heritage (provenance research.
We are grateful to all our sponsors.
Business history research is a process of gaining new insights that depends on the participation and support of a broad spectrum of enterprises and scholars. Accordingly, the GUG understands itself as a network that promotes the dialogue between enterprises and scholars. Through this network, enterprises can introduce new questions into academic debate.
Please support historical research:
GUG fills gaps in research through sponsored non-profit projects such as studies about no longer existing companies such as Ruhrgas or the Hertie department store chain (Karg Foundation) or the search for Kulturgütern / cultural heritage (provenance research.
We are grateful to all our sponsors.