Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte

Unrecognized Prophets? Examining the Discrepancy between the Status and Influence of the «founding generation» in the West German Advertising Industry, 1945 to 1966/67 The paper examines the standing as well as the socioeconomic influence...

Staff Housing Policy during the «Fordist» Era:The Volkswagenwerk in Wolfsburg and Automobiles Peugeot in Sochaux from 1944 to 1979 The «Wirtschaftswunder», or economic miracle, also known as the «Trente Glorieuses» is often ascribed to...

Marketing consumer goods during the armament boom.Growth strategies of the division Agfa of IG Farben,1933-1945 Taking up the debate on the relations between private companies and the Nazi regime, this case study of Agfa, a division of IG...

Between family heritage and global market. Changes in ownership and management of large West-German family firms (1960-2008) Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow the development path described by Alfred...

Mining Elite and National Socialist EliteErnst Brandi’s Resignation from the Chair of «Bezirksgruppe Steinkohlenbergbau Ruhr» in June 1937 To date little is known about Ernst Brandi’s resignation from the chair of the «Bezirksgruppe...

The development of the modern concept of labour productivity.A contribution to German Business Economics history The starting point of this article is the reduced output in German factories in the early 1920s, which employers attributed solely...

Starting conditions for the transformation of the GDR-economy: combines as future market enterprises? The paper explores whether or not the combines – the organizational units which dominated the industrial sector of the German Democratic...

Promoting the arts at the Deutsche Bank: Means to an end? Implementing the Concept of Art in the Workplace at the Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt Studies have been published to show that corporate funding of the arts was at least partly...

Experiences of conversion: The French automobile firms Renault and Berliet from First to Second World Wars The First World War accelerated the growth of the French automobile industry in a number of ways, including the physical size of the...

Between environmental responsibility and economic constraints: From VEB dkk Scharfenstein to FORON Hausgeräte GmbH The first CFC-free refrigerator was invented by a small enterprise in Saxony, the dkk Scharfenstein GmbH, better known as...

The long farewell to the airship: The diversification of the Zeppelin-Company after the First World War. The Zeppelin-Company was founded in 1908 for the construction of airships. During the First World War it experienced a boom by...

Indigo and the Swiss dyestuffs industry. Major projects from Ciba and Geigy. By the end of the 19th century the process of indigo production had changed radically. Scientific innovation allowed for the substitution of natural resources by...

Economy and Theology. The development of the Diakonie (Protestant social welfare) enterprise during the decisive period 1960 to 1980 This article covers the change of the Protestant social welfare organizations - the «Diakonie» - into an...

Marketing Management as a Structural Framework. The Organisational Change in the German Car Industry from the 1960s to 1980s Since the mid-60s the German car industry was challenged by profound changes in market conditions. Accelerated by the...

Against the backdrop of the questions that arise from New Institutional Economy and its «cultural turn», the article contributes to the investigations of network-economy in the early 19th century by looking at five members of the Schoeller-...