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

By Raymond G. Stokes , Werner Abelshauser , Wolfgang von Hippel , Jeffrey Allan Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0521827264, 9780521827263
LCC
HD9654.9.B27 B2713 2003
Google Books ID
PbzUAgp3yKQC
Open Library ID
OL17114273M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16757375 bytes)
Pages
733\733
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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