Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management - Couverture rigide

Fear, Jeffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674014928 ISBN 13 : 9780674014923

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2005

Synopsis

In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as "backward" relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen--the Andrew Carnegie of Germany--Fear traces the evolution of management inside the Thyssen-Konzern and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) between 1871 and 1934.

Fear focuses on the organization and internal dynamics of the company. He demonstrates that initiatives often flowed from middle managers, rather than from the top down. Shattering stereotypes of the overly bureaucratic and rigid German firm, Fear portrays a decentralized and flexible system that underscores the dynamic and entrepreneurial nature of German business. He fundamentally revises the scholarship on Alexander Gerschenkron and Germany's Sonderweg, and critiques Max Weber's concept of the corporation and capital accounting. He develops a loosely coupled relationship among enterprise strategy, organization, the structure of responsibility, and its accounting system, which links information, knowledge, and power inside the firm. This method of organizing control is central to understanding corporate governance.

Original and provocative, this work will generate much debate among historians, organizational theorists, and management and accounting scholars.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeffrey Fear is Associate Professor of Business at the University of Redlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674014928
• ISBN 13: 9780674014923
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 976
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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