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Organizing control : August Thyssen and the construction of German corporate management /

"In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as "backward" relative to the United States and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen - the Andrew Carnegie of Germany -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fear, Jeffrey R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Colección:Harvard studies in business history ; 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thyssen & Co., 1871-1914
  • August Thyssen, Victorian entrepreneur
  • If I rest, I rust
  • Creating management
  • Accounting for control
  • Sustaining innovation
  • The Thyssen-Konzern, 1890-1926
  • Cartels and competition
  • Rushing forward and backward
  • Managing a konzern
  • Organizing financial control
  • Revolutionizing industrial relations
  • Centralization or decentralization?
  • The demise of the Thyssen-Konzern
  • The Vereinigte Stahlwerke, 1926-1936
  • The "rationalization company"
  • Contested terrain
  • Business practice and politics
  • Heinrich Dinkelbach, organization man
  • Appendixes (p. [751]-787) : A. Tables
  • B. Accounting as symbolic practice.