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The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act 2021 aims to enforce human rights standards in the entire supply chain from raw material to end product. It applies to bigger companies that have their administrative headquarters or registered office in Germany, including companies which have a branch office in Germany. The SCDDA will lead to companies having to make considerable adjustments in compliance, contract design with supplier companies and purchasing. If internal company control procedures and risk assessment, especially to direct suppliers are not sufficiently adapted, a considerable liability risk may arise, which will be exacerbated by the future introduction of special civil liability under future European supply chain law. The paper gives an overview over the SCDDA and discusses strengths and weaknesses of the German legislation.

"Abbreviations" -- "Figures and tables" -- "Maps" -- "Plates" -- "Preface and acknowledgements" -- "Orthography" -- "Contributors" -- "Introduction" -- "1. The German-language tradition of ethnography in Australia" -- "2. German-language anthropology traditions around 1900: Their methodological relevance for ethnographers in Australia and beyond" -- "Part I: First encounters" -- "3. Clamor Schürmann's contribution to the ethnographic record for Eyre Peninsula, South Australia" -- "4. Pulcaracuranie: Losing and finding a cosmic centre with the help of J. G. Reuther and others" -- "5. Looking at some details of Reuther's work" -- "6. German Moravian missionaries on western Cape York Peninsula and their perception of the local Aboriginal people and languages" -- "Part II: Impact of the Aranda" -- "7. Early ethnographic work at the Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, 1877–1910" -- "8. Sigmund Freud, Géza Róheim and the Strehlows: Oedipal tales from Central Australian anthropology" -- "9. Of kinships and othert hings: T. G. H. Strehlow in Central Australia" -- "10. 'Only the best is good enough for eternity': Revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow" -- "Part III: Widening the interest" -- "11. The Australianist work of Erhard Eylmann in comparative perspective" -- "12. Herbert Basedow (1881–1933): Surgeon, geologist, naturalist and anthropologist" -- "13. Father Worms's contribution to Australian Aboriginal anthropology" -- "14. Historicising culture: Father Ernst Worms and the German anthropological traditions" -- "Part IV: Academic anthropology" -- "15. Doing research in the Kimberley and carrying ideological baggage: A personal journey" -- "16. Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north‑west Kimberley

The contribution of German ethnography to Australian anthropological scholarship on Aboriginal societies and cultures has been limited, primarily because few people working in the field read German. But it has also been neglected because its humanistic concerns with language, religion and mythology contrasted with the mainstream British social anthropological tradition that prevailed in Australia until the late 1960s. The advent of native title claims, which require drawing on the earliest ethnography for any area, together with an increase in research on rock art of the Kimberley region, has stimulated interest in this German ethnography, as have some recent book translations. Even so, several major bodies of ethnography, such as the 13 volumes on the cultures of northeastern South Australia and the seven volumes on the Aranda of the Alice Springs region, remain inaccessible, along with many ethnographically rich articles and reports in mission archives. In 18 chapters, this book introduces and reviews the significance of this neglected work, much of it by missionaries who first wrote on Australian Aboriginal cultures in the 1840s. Almost all of these German speakers, in particular the missionaries, learnt an Aboriginal language in order to be able to document religious beliefs, mythology and songs as a first step to conversion. As a result, they produced an enormously valuable body of work that will greatly enrich regional ethnographies.

In this paper we examine the case for a link at the national and firm level between human resource management (HRM) and economic success in Australia. A brief history of the industrial development of Australia (and New Zealand) is presented and some differentiating factors noted (Dowling/Boxall 1994). A key factor with regard to Australia is the relatively small size of the population and economy and the disproportionate impact of globalisation and global political and economic events upon the performance of the Australian economy. Recent empirical research in the US which argues that there is evidence that positive employee relations effectively serves as an intangible and enduring asset at the firm level (Fulmer/Gerhart/Scott 2003) is noted, as is the December 2003 special issue of International Journal of Human Resource Management which focuses on Developments in Comparative HRM and concludes that there is evidence both for and against the hypothesis that there are no universal prescriptions for effective HRM. The editors (Wright and Brewster) argue that 'the variety of views about what makes for 'good HRM' and the variety of understandings of which policies and practices lead to success is not only inevitable, but should be welcomed' (Wright/Brewster 2003: 1305). The author is in broad agreement with this conclusion.

In recent years, foreign companies operating in Russia have faced with these or those risks and a lot of them have fallen into difficult situations, even have came close to bankruptcy. There are different kinds of risks for foreign companies operating in Russia: one kind in one company, other kind in another company. How many kinds and what kinds of risks are there for foreign companies, especially for Chinese enterprises operating in Russia, that yet is not so clear. In this paper we consider the classification of business risks for foreign companies operating in Russia, and put a case study on Chinese enterprises. In this article divided business risks for foreign companies operating in Russia by the level of occurrence, classified the risks in Chinese enterprises, which have their entrepreneurial activities in the Russian market and in detail considered all types of them. In considering each type of business risks in Chinese companies operating in Russia, closely combined and calculated Russian political, economic, cultural, social characteristics etc. In the end, the article also analyzed and summarized the causes of all types of risks in Chinese enterprises operating in Russia.