Organizing Control
August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management
Published on 1. July 2009
975 pages
978-0-674-03674-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, Fear traces the evolution of management in the Thyssen-Konzern and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) between 1871 and 1934.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03674-1 (9780674036741)
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03/2005
Harvard University Press
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Person
Jeffrey Fear is Associate Professor of Business at the University of Redlands.
Content
Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction I. Thyssen & Co., 1871-1914 1 August Thyssen, Victorian Entrepreneur 2 If I Rest, I Rust 3 Creating Management 4 Accounting for Control 5 Sustaining Innovation II. The Thyssen-Konzern, 1890-1926 6 Cartels and Competition 7 Rushing Forward and Backward 8 Managing a Konzern 9 Organizing Financial Control 10 Revolutionizing Industrial Relations 11 Centralization or Decentralization? 12 The Demise of the Thyssen-Konzern III. The Vereinigte Stahlwerke, 1926-1936 13 The "Rationalization Company" 14 Contested Terrain 15 Business Practice and Politics 16 Heinrich Dinkelbach, Organization Man Conclusion Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Accounting as Symbolic Practice Notes Index
