Security and Insecurity in Business History
Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2021
282 pages
978-3-7489-2457-9 (ISBN)
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In der Unternehmensgeschichte wurde das Thema "Sicherheit" bislang wenig systematisch bearbeitet. Der Band macht einen ersten Versuch, die Ansätze der Historischen Sicherheitsforschung auf Unternehmen anzuwenden und die historische Dynamik von "Sicherheit" jenseits statischer Risikobegriffe an Fallbeispielen seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert zu analysieren. Gemäß den theoretischen Annahmen der Historischen Sicherheitsforschung gehen wir davon aus, dass die konkrete Bedeutung von "Sicherheit" im jeweiligen historischen Zusammenhang verhandelt wurde. Die Sicherheitserwartungen von Unternehmen können nicht allein aus ihrer Orientierung an Marktrisiken erklärt werden. Ihre Wahrnehmung von Risiko und Gefahr folgte historisch wandelbaren "Sicherheitsgrammatiken".
Mit Beiträgen von
Marcus Böick, Christian Kleinschmidt, Mark Jakob & Nina Kleinöder, Sabine Pitteloud, Kristin Stanwick Bårnås, Christian Marx, Ole Sparenberg, Sascha Brünig und Eva Schäffler.
Dieser Band steht im Zusammenhang mit der Nomos-Schriftenreihe "Politiken der Sicherheit", die vom Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 138 "Dynamiken der Sicherheit" an den Universitäten Marburg und Gießen herausgegeben und unterstützt wird.
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Content
- Cover
- The Security and Insecurity of Enterprises: Constructing and Negotiating Dangers, Hazards, and Threats in Business History
- Introduction
- 1. The semantics of security and insecurity: risk, danger, and threats
- 2. Enterprises and security
- 3. Themes and subject matters in this volume
- Bibliography
- Weak States, Strong Businesses? The History of Private Security Firms in Twentieth-Century Germany
- Introduction: Security beyond the State?
- 1. State of the Art: Bringing Security back to Contemporary History
- 2. Rise and Fall, and Rise again? A brief History of the Security Industry in Twentieth-century Germany
- 3. Perspectives: From 'National Security Cultures' to global 'Security Capitalism'?
- Conclusion: 'Weak' States, 'Strong' Businesses?
- Bibliography
- Food and Supply Security in the first Phase of Globalisation: the Role of Producers, Consumers, and the State in the German Empire
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The consumers
- 3. The producers
- 4. The State
- 5. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Between Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking and Reason of State: Export Credit Insurance in Germany and Britain during the Interwar Period
- 1. Principles and the beginnings of trade credit insurance
- 2. The creation and operation of the British and German TCI schemes
- Britain
- Germany
- 3. The state-backed high hopes of Gutehoffnungshütte in Colombia
- 4. Summary and conclusion
- Bibliography
- Multinationals' Need for State Protection: the Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s
- Political Risk in Host States versus Political Assistance from Home States: two Sides of the same Coin
- Swiss MNEs, Political Risks and Institutional Activism
- The Debates within the Business Community
- The Implementation of the IRG
- A State Insurance Designed by and for Swiss MNEs
- Bibliography
- The Management of Foreign Direct Investment Risk by two Norwegian Firms in the 1960s and 1970s
- Definitions: Risk and risk management
- Background and context
- Dyno Industrier
- Norcem
- Risk management strategies
- Political risk
- Entry mode
- Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Security in a Globalizing World: the Debate on Foreign Capital in West Germany in the 1970s
- Introduction
- On the nationality of investments under economic liberalism and economic nationalism
- Breaking the taboo - Krupp, Daimler-Benz, and the Iran deal
- The political debate on foreign investment and the international dimension of investment restrictions
- The ministerial drafting of restriction options
- Diverging ideas within the German economy
- Conclusion and outlook
- Bibliography
- Security of Supply: West Germany and the Global Markets for Base Metals, 1965-80
- Introduction
- Increased competition for metals (1966-73)
- Metals, Cartels and the Global North-South divide (1973-80)
- The New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly
- Responses
- Stockpiling of critical commodities
- Security of supply in retrospect
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Performing Diligence: Nuclear Labour, Reactor Safety, and Public Relations in the West German Nuclear Industry in the 1980s
- Three Mile Island and the Debate on Human Failure in Nuclear Safety
- Engineers, Technicians, and the Personification of Diligence
- Nuclear 'Ingenieurskunst' and the Enactment of Professional Identities
- Conclusion
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- The Threat of Insolvency: Czech Enterprises Searching for Financial Security in the Early 1990s
- 1. (In)security in post-socialist economic transformation and in historical research
- 2. Company magazines as sources
- 3. Czech enterprises fighting insolvency in the early 1990s
- 3.1. Debt in Czechoslovakia before and after the end of state socialism
- 3.2. Reasons for and countermeasures against insolvency
- 3.3. Discourse on insolvency and financial security
- 4. Summary and Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Author information
