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Organizing Control : August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management / Jeffrey R. Fear.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 45Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (975 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674014923
  • 9780674036741
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658 22
LOC classification:
  • HD70.G3 F43 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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