German Industry and Global Enterprise

Basf: The History of a Company
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-10119-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 732 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1168 g

The corporate history of BASF spans an era of German and international economic history that began with the rise of the 'new industries' as of the late nineteenth century and continues today in their confrontation with the new economy. This book examines BASF's corporate governance, financial system, industrial relations, system of qualification and relation to other companies. A corporate history of BASF promises more than an insight into the functioning of an industrial organisation. It also reveals the reasons for the extraordinary economic dynamics of the German empire and the enormous expansion of the world economy before World War I. BASF's history stands at the centre of Germany's wartime economy during two world wars and highlights both its strengths and weaknesses. Just as the IG Farben trust helped support Germany's course of politicoeconomic autarky after 1933, so it was that BASF helped facilitate West Germany's startlingly quick return to the world market. BASF has since been among the transnational companies whose efforts at the leading edge of economic and technological progress are paradigmatic for Germany's entry into the new economy of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abelshauser, Werner

Hippel, Wolfgang von

Johnson, Jeffrey Allan

Stokes, Raymond G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Chemische Industrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.