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  • WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

    From Niche Position to International Recognition, 1984 - 2019

    by Klaus Brockhoff ...
    Translated by Leinhäuser Language Services GmbH ...
    How can a personal desire to leave a lasting mark and criticism of the German university system lead to the establishment of an internationally renowned institution of higher education? Klaus Brockhoff provides the answer to this question by accurately tracing the detailed 35-year history of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management – and highlighting all of its highs and lows in the process. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Management Ideas

    A Short History of Business Administration

    by Klaus Brockhoff ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book offers a short history of business administration in four parts. Part 1 takes the reader from 8000 BCE with the development of simple control techniques to the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, normative, empirical, and theoretical approaches to business problems in the industrial area were developed. Furthermore, more powerful methodologies came into use. In Part 2, the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Germany and the United States, Past and Present

    by Hartmut Berghoff, Ingo Köhler ...
    Familienunternehmen sind in Deutschland und in den USA zentrale Bausteine der jeweiligen Volkswirtschaft. Und doch gibt es signifikante Unterschiede in der Unternehmens- und Familienkultur sowie der institutionellen Umwelt. So wird Deutschland in den USA um seine leistungsstarken Familienunternehmen, vor allem die Hidden Champions, beneidet. Zudem bestehen deutsche Familienunternehmen im ... Read more

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  • A Global Lesson

    Success Through Cooperation and Compassionate Leadership

    by Reinhard Mohn ...
    Reinhard Mohn, legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann, offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world’s foremost businesspeople.Reinhard Mohn has grappled with the political and cultural changes of recent decades like few other entrepreneurs of his time. In this deeply personal book, Mohn, for the first time, describes his ... Read more

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  • Socialism with a Human Face

    Using Behavioural Economics to Understand East German Economic History

    by Gary B. Magee, Wayne Geerling ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Rhenish Capitalism

    New Insights from a Business History Perspective

    Edited by Christian Marx, Morten Reitmayer ...
    Rhenish capitalism is an ideal-typical model of capitalism which is characterised by a bank-centered financing system, close economic ties between banks and companies, a balance of power between shareholders and management, and a social partnership between unions and employers. The West German economy of the 1950s to the 1980s is the prime example of that model of capitalism which contrasts with ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Responsibility of Science

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its responsibility; and third, normative versions of scientific responsibility. The questions and problems dealt with include science as a profession, ... Read more

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  • Responsible Entrepreneurship

    Business and Society: Bridging the Gap

    Edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung ...
    Meeting the societal effects of demographic change, globalization, digitization and growing social inequality requires collective action on the part of government, civil society and the private sector. But what do businesses offer in developing effective solutions to the challenges we face as a society? The Bertelsmann Stiftung conducted global research on this question for the Reinhard Mohn Prize ... Read more

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • Working in the Service Sector

    A Tale from Different Worlds

    Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Steffen Lehndorff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the ... Read more

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  • Basic and Applied Research

    The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Désirée Schauz, David Kaldewey ...
    Series Book 4 - European Conceptual History
    The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic–applied ... Read more

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  • Trams or Tailfins?

    Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

    by Jan L. Logemann ...
    In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions*,* Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption ... Read more

    $40.39 USD