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Organizing Control : August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management
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In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as "backward" relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradit...
In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as "backward" relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen--the Andrew Carnegie of Germany--Fear traces the evolution of management inside the Thyssen-Konzern and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) between 1871 and 1934.
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- Creator
- Jeffrey R. Fear
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
- ©2005
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780674036741, 0674036743
- OCLC
- ocn979832439
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Thyssen & Co., 1871-1914 -- Chapter 1. August Thyssen, Victorian Entrepreneur -- Chapter 2. If I Rest, I Rust -- Chapter 3. Creating Management -- Chapter 4. Accounting for Control -- Chapter 5. Sustaining Innovation -- Part II. The Thyssen-Konzern, 1890-1926 -- Chapter 6. Cartels and Competition -- Chapter 7. Rushing Forward and Backward -- Chapter 8. Managing a Konzern -- Chapter 9. Organizing Financial Control -- Chapter 10. Revolutionizing Industrial Relations -- Chapter 11. Centralization or Decentralization? -- Chapter 12. The Demise of the Thyssen-Konzern -- Part III. The Vereinigte Stahlwerke, 1926-1936 -- Chapter 13. The "Rationalization Company" -- Chapter 14. Contested Terrain -- Chapter 15. Business Practice and Politics -- Chapter 16. Heinrich Dinkelbach, Organization Man -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Tables -- Appendix B: Accounting as Symbolic Practice -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter