German Industry and Global Enterprise: Basf: The History of a Company

ISBN-13: 9780521101196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 732 str.

Werner Abelshauser; Wolfgang Von Hippel; Jeffrey Allan Johnson

Opis

This corporate history of BASF offers a view of the functioning of an industrial organization that has managed to thrive and expand since 1865. Moreover, it reveals much about the reasons for the extraordinary economic dynamics of the German empire and the enormous expansion of the world economy before World War I. It permits the probing of the origins and spread of the knowledge society, in which science and research-based innovation have become the key determinants of economic growth and social development. Accordingly, BASF's history developed at the core of Germany's wartime economy during both world wars and highlights its strengths as well as its weaknesses.

Recenzje

"The authors are to be congratulated on a well-integrated study presented in a handsomely produced book with valuable graphs, tables, and illustrations." Technology and Culture, Kenneth S. Mernitz

Spis treści

Introduction; From new industry to the new economy; Part I. Becoming a Global Corporation - BASF from 1865 to 1900 Wolfgang von Hippel; Part II. The Power of Synthesis (1900-25) Jeffrey Allan Johnson; Part III. From the IG Farben Fusion to the Establishment of BASF AG (1925-52) Raymond G. Stokes; Part IV. BASF since its Refounding in 1952 Werner Abelshauser; Appendix; Bibliography; Indexes.

O autorze

Prof. Werner Abelshauser lehrt als Wirtschaftshistoriker an der Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft und Philosophie der Universität Bielefeld. Er ist Gründungsmitglied des 'Instituts Weltgesellschaft'.