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Organizing Control

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Description for Organizing Control Hardcover. Series: Harvard Studies in Business History. Num Pages: 976 pages, 16 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 14 charts, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 246 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1472.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
976
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Studies in Business History
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674014923
SKU
V9780674014923
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About Jeffrey Fear
Jeffrey Fear is Associate Professor of Business at the University of Redlands.

Reviews for Organizing Control
Jeffrey Fear shatters some models of German business history in this massive and enlightening study.
C. Edmund Clingan
German Studies Review
This volume is a seminal work in the history of the Thyssen corporation as well as in German business history more generally… Organizing Control is an ambitious study of one of the most influential companies in ... Read more

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