Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management 9780674036741
Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as “backward” relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autono
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Table of contents :
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
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