The Dynamics Of German Industry

Author : Werner Abelshauser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782387992

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The Dynamics of German Industry by Werner Abelshauser Pdf

Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a "Rhenish capitalism" still viable at the beginning of the 21st century and does it offer a road to the New Economy different from the one, in which the standards are set by the U.S.? The author, one of Germany's leading economic historians, analyzes the special features of the German path to the New Economy as it faces the American challenge. He paints a fascinating picture of Germany Inc. and looks at the durability of some of its structures and the mentalities that undergird it. He sees a "culture clash" and argues against an underestimation of the dynamics of the German industrial system. A provocative book for all interested in comparative economics and those who have been inclined to dismiss the German Model as outmoded and weak.

Author : Werner Abelshauser,Wolfgang von Hippel,Jeffrey Allan Johnson,Raymond G. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521827264

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German Industry and Global Enterprise by Werner Abelshauser,Wolfgang von Hippel,Jeffrey Allan Johnson,Raymond G. Stokes Pdf

This corporate history of BASF offers a view of the functioning of an industrial organization that has managed to thrive and expand since 1865. Moreover, it reveals much about the reasons for the extraordinary economic dynamics of the German empire and the enormous expansion of the world economy before World War I. It permits the probing of the origins and spread of the knowledge society, in which science and research-based innovation have become the key determinants of economic growth and social development. Accordingly, BASF's history developed at the core of Germany's wartime economy during both world wars and highlights its strengths as well as its weaknesses.

Author : Volker Berghahn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571819312

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Quest for Economic Empire by Volker Berghahn Pdf

German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes that German finance and industry will serve as the engine of reconstruction in eastern Europe, just as it played this role in the postwar unification of western Europe.

Author : Werner Abelshauser,Wolfgang von Hippel,Jeffrey Allan Johnson,Raymond G. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139438759

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German Industry and Global Enterprise by Werner Abelshauser,Wolfgang von Hippel,Jeffrey Allan Johnson,Raymond G. Stokes Pdf

The corporate history of BASF spans an era of German and international economic history that began with the rise of the 'new industries' as of the late nineteenth century and continues today in their confrontation with the new economy. This book examines BASF's corporate governance, financial system, industrial relations, system of qualification and relation to other companies. A corporate history of BASF promises more than an insight into the functioning of an industrial organisation. It also reveals the reasons for the extraordinary economic dynamics of the German empire and the enormous expansion of the world economy before World War I. BASF's history stands at the centre of Germany's wartime economy during two world wars and highlights both its strengths and weaknesses. Just as the IG Farben trust helped support Germany's course of politicoeconomic autarky after 1933, so it was that BASF helped facilitate West Germany's startlingly quick return to the world market. BASF has since been among the transnational companies whose efforts at the leading edge of economic and technological progress are paradigmatic for Germany's entry into the new economy of the twenty-first century.

Author : Christopher Kobrak,Per H. Hansen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : 1571816291

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European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 by Christopher Kobrak,Per H. Hansen Pdf

For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald Feldman, Peter Hayes, and Wilfried Feldenkirchen, sets business activity in its political and social context and describes some of the strategic and tactical responses of firms investing from or into Europe to a myriad of opportunities and risks posed by host or home country authoritarian governments during the interwar period. Although principally a work of history, it puts into perspective some commercial dilemmas with which practitioners and business theorists must still unfortunately grapple.

Author : Jürgen Kocka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571811982

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Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society by Jürgen Kocka Pdf

"For students ... this is a good introduction ... The assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "This fine volume brings together essays by one of the leading modern German historians, essays that give the reader an impressive overview of his work from three decades and introduce new generations of students to central questions of modern German social history." - Central European History "... a tour de force of societal history, reminding one both of how many insights Kocka has generated through application of Weberian analytical tools." - H-Net Reviews (H-W-Civ) "... a good introduction ... the assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "... a seminal, critically important, uniquely informative contribution to the study of German history, business, entrepreneurship, and the working class." - The Midwest Book Review Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by reference to Marx and Weber, new and powerful analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Author : Hartmut Berghoff,Uta Andrea Balbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107030138

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The East German Economy, 1945-2010 by Hartmut Berghoff,Uta Andrea Balbier Pdf

The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.

Author : Alfred Dupont CHANDLER,Takashi Hikino,Alfred D Chandler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029385

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Scale and Scope by Alfred Dupont CHANDLER,Takashi Hikino,Alfred D Chandler Pdf

Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.

Author : Werner Plumpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137518606

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German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Werner Plumpe Pdf

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institutional structure of the economy. Plumpe's work demonstrates that the country's economic evolution can only be understood by paying close attention to institutional peculiarities, such as the shape of industrial relations and the dynamics of corporate decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of the interconnectedness of capital and labour in the German coordinated market economy and draws attention to individual events and decisions that may have driven long-term economic development, but are rarely considered in approaches that deal primarily with macroeconomic growth. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the application of an institutional view of economic transformation that is slightly different from the more formal perspectives dominant in the UK and the US. The book serves as a practical demonstration of a historicist approach to economic history introduced by the German Historical School a century ago, which still inspires large parts of German economic historiography./div

Author : Toni Pierenkemper,Richard Tilly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782387213

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The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century by Toni Pierenkemper,Richard Tilly Pdf

In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again, the causes and consequences of these changes are inextricably linked with earlier industrialization.This means that understanding 19th Century industrialization helps us understand problems of contemporary economic growth. There is no recent study on economic developments in 19th Century Germany. So this concise volume, written specifically with students of German and economic history in mind, will prove to be most valuable, not least because of its wealth of statistical data.

Author : Volker Rolf Berghahn
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038059460

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The Americanisation of West German Industry, 1945-1973 by Volker Rolf Berghahn Pdf

Author : Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226725574

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From Old Regime to Industrial State by Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis Pdf

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

Author : Martin Behrens,Heiner Dribbusch
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : 3848759748

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Industrial Relations in Germany by Martin Behrens,Heiner Dribbusch Pdf

This special edition of 'WSI-Mitteilungen', the academic journal of the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), focuses on the state of labour relations in Germany. The system of German industrial relations aroused lively interest following the corporatist crisis management of 2009/2010, which was credited with 'Germany's jobs miracle'. In 2019, it is apparent that although works councils and multi-employer collective bargaining-the core institutional pillars which shape the dual system of German industrial relations-are still alive, labour relations as a whole are undergoing substantial changes. It is the aim of this special issue to contribute to improving our understanding of these changes, and also to open up new perspectives on both the theory and practice of industrial relations.

Author : Mary Lindemann,Jared Poley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785335891

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Money in the German-speaking Lands by Mary Lindemann,Jared Poley Pdf

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money’s vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.

Author : Timothy T. Lupfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UCR:31210004670269

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The Dynamics of Doctrine by Timothy T. Lupfer Pdf

This paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine. Besides providing a summary of German Infantry tactics of the First World War, this study offers insight into the crucial role of leadership in facilitating doctrinal change during battle. It reminds us that success in war demands extensive and vigorous training calculated to insure that field commanders understand and apply sound tactical principles as guidelines for action and not as a substitute for good judgment. It points out the need for a timely effort in collecting and evaluating doctrinal lessons from battlefield experience. --Abstract.