Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte

On the History of Current Value Accounting in Germany It is widely regarded that current value or fair value accounting has been «fuelling» the recent financial crisis. Nevertheless, it was during this self-same financial crisis that it was...

Christiane Eifert, Deutsche Unternehmerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert (Meral Avci)Cornelia Rauh, Schweizer Aluminium für Hitlers Krieg?, Zur Geschichte der „Alusuisse“ 1918-1950 (Benjamin Obermüller)Norbert Frei/Tim Schanetzky (Hrsg.), Unternehmen...

Until the end of the First World War, Upper Silesia was one of the most industrialized regions of the former German Kaiserreich. In the aftermath of the War, it was divided, with one part remaining in Germany and the other part of Poland. Its...

Despite exploring a number of fruitful lines of inquiry, research on emigration from the German Reich between 1933 and 1945 has for the most part neglected business people and entrepreneurs even if a few US American studies in the 1940s highlighted...

The case of the drinks company Campari allows detailed analysis and greater understanding of the role of branding in the success of a business, and it also demonstrates how its success was the result of the interaction between producer and consumer....

Christian Kleinschmidt, KonsumgesellschaftWolfgang König, Kleine Geschichte der Konsumgesellschaft. Konsum als Lebensform der ModerneHeinz-Gerhard Haupt/Claudius Torp (Hrsg.), Die Konsumgesellschaft in Deutschland 1890-1990. Ein Handbuch (Thomas...

Local environment versus transnational opportunity? ENI’s reaction to the protests against the CEL-Pipeline in the 1960s.In the 60s environmental politics gathered mo - mentum in various consumers and consciousness grew as well. A first prominent...

Everything capitalism has to offer is in the department store The development of department stores in the Federal Republik of Germany The development of West German department stores after 1949 started off successfully. Indeed until 1973/4...

Christina Lubinski, Familienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren (Thomas Hermann)Adelheid von Saldern, Netzwerkökonomie im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Das Beispiel der Schoeller-Häuser...

East German companies in the process of transformation from 1935 to 1995. A new research area of modern business historyThe history of companies in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) has been neglected until very recently. Historical...

The Deutsche Evangelische Heimstättengesellschaft (Devaheim) Rise and fall of a church-affiliated building and loan society 1926-1931 The Bausparkasse Devaheim was a building and loan society affiliated with the Lutheran church in Germany....