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 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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fear, Jeffrey R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:Harvard studies in business history ; 45.
Subjects:
Thyssen, August, > 1842-1926.
Dinkelbach, Heinrich, > 1891-
Thyssen, August, > 1842-1926
Thyssen & Co. (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) > History.
Vereinigte Stahlwerke Aktiengesellschaft > History.
Thyssen & Co. (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Allemagne) > Histoire.
Vereinigte Stahlwerke Aktiengesellschaft > Histoire.
Thyssen & Co. (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Vereinigte Stahlwerke Aktiengesellschaft
Industrial management > Germany > History.
Industrialists > Germany > History.
Gestion d'entreprise > Allemagne > Histoire.
Industriels > Allemagne > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
Industrial management
Industrialists
Management.
Germany
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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