Frontmatter
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Thyssen & Co., 1871-1914
Chapter 1. August Thyssen, Victorian Entrepreneur
Chapter 2. If I Rest, I Rust
Chapter 3. Creating Management
Chapter 4. Accounting for Control
Chapter 5. Sustaining Innovation
Part II. The Thyssen-Konzern, 1890-1926
Chapter 6. Cartels and Competition
Chapter 7. Rushing Forward and Backward
Chapter 8. Managing a Konzern
Chapter 9. Organizing Financial Control
Chapter 10. Revolutionizing Industrial Relations
Chapter 11. Centralization or Decentralization?
Chapter 12. The Demise of the Thyssen-Konzern
Part III. The Vereinigte Stahlwerke, 1926-1936
Chapter 13. The "Rationalization Company"
Chapter 14. Contested Terrain
Chapter 15. Business Practice and Politics
Chapter 16. Heinrich Dinkelbach, Organization Man
Conclusion
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Accounting as Symbolic Practice
Notes
Index
Backmatter