1st Edition
Rhenish Capitalism New Insights from a Business History Perspective
Preface
Christian Marx and Morten Reitmayer
Introduction: Rhenish capitalism and business history
Christian Marx and Morten Reitmayer
1. The concept of social fields and the productive models: Two examples from the European automobile industry
Morten Reitmayer
2. Corporate law and corporate control in West Germany after 1945
Boris Gehlen
3. Between national governance and the internationalisation of business. The case of four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres, 1945–2000
Christian Marx
4. Financing Rhenish capitalism: ‘bank power’ and the business of crisis management in the 1960s and 1970s
Ralf Ahrens
5. Supplier relations within the German automobile industry. The case of Daimler-Benz, 1950–1980
Stephanie Tilly
6. Confrontational coordination: The rearrangement of public relations in the automotive industry during the 1970s
Ingo Köhle
Biography
Christian Marx is Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany, where he is working on a collective biography of the top management of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) in the two post-war decades.
Morten Reitmayer is Researcher and Supernumerary Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier, Germany.
