The Americanisation that never was? The first decade of the<i>Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche</i>, 1954–64 and top management training in 1950s Germany

Grünbacher, Armin

doi:10.1080/00076791.2011.631118

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“…traditional products that had been previously produced through traditional techniques were advanced by modern equipment, materials and process but only to meet local level of expectations). Other contributions from economic and financial scholars suggested that modernisation is related to increased energy consumption (Rubio et al , 2010), the rise of commercial chains (Ruiz, 2007) and an emphasis on formal educational training implying that Americanisation was a distinct type of modernisation (Grünbacher, 2012). Moreover, these studies reinforced that modernisation involves scientific record-keeping and is associated with improvements to transportation and marketing promotions.…”

Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other works published in the Journal of Management History covered the modernisation of street cars (Greenwood et al , 2009), the transfer of Taylorism to China (Morgan, 2006) and even the modernisation of business schools (van Baalen and Karsten, 2010) and offered specific recommendations. For instance, although they did not recognise this process as Americanisation, van Baalen and Karsten pre-dated Grünbacher’s (2012) suggestion that the rise of professional schools and educated workforce is an important consideration for modernisation. Elsewhere, Trevinyo-Rodríguez (2009) made use of Chandler’s ideas on corporate growth and combined them with previous work on family businesses to explain their transition over time.…”

Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The history of the modernisation construct

Seifried

Novičević

2017

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Purpose This paper aims to trace and/or historicise modernisation as a conceptual framework from the antecedents to present times. It also highlights the recent and past attention provided to modernisation by business and economic history scholars to recognise their contribution. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a literature review which offers a sample of debate from foundational scholars regarding the concept of modernisation emanating from sociologists, historians and business scholars. To present an analysis of the recent activity from business scholars on modernisation from highly recognizable journals and draw conclusions about the conceptual framework regarding its future as a framing device, the authors used search functions in the Business Source Complete database and specific journal search engines. Findings A keyword search of modernisation produced 45 published articles from 2000 to 2016 in business-related history and Financial Times top 50 journals. The foremost recognizable aspect of modernisation, as a construct presented here, demonstrates the concept that aims to illustrate a basic and/or universal pattern of the social processes that primarily affect development (e.g. cultural, economic, organisational, ecological, technological, etc.). Moreover, the authors demonstrate that economic and business scholars helped identify and explain different types of modernisation, reinforce or connect specific characteristics to modernisation, develop modernisation as an index capable of measurement and provide evidence of modernisation as a rhetorical strategy. Originality/value Little to no previous studies on modernisation emphasised on the contribution of business and economic historians; instead, they focused on the contributions of sociologists and social historians. Business and management historians served as an important voice in the development of modernisation as a conceptual frame. They highlighted the opportunities that are available to position modernisation as a useful tool to predict the future of traditional and advanced organisations.

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Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Twenty-first-century Business History Scholarship On Modernisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The history of the modernisation construct

Seifried

Novičević

2017

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“…Elle se définit comme l'influence des modèles américains 1 -capitaliste, managérial et/ou culturel -sur d'autres modèles nationaux (Barjot, 2003;Schröter, 2007). En tant qu'« influence américaine », l'américanisation vise également les modèles nationaux ou régionaux de gouvernance, d'éducation et de pratiques managériales telles que celles du conseil (Rasheed et Yoshikawa, 2012;Grünbacher, 2012;Kipping et al 2003).…”

Section: Américanisation Des Modèles De Management Et De Leur Composaunclassified

“…Par ailleurs, en complément de l'étude des modalités de l'américanisation, certains travaux soulèvent la question de ce qui est américanisé, transféré, adapté ou traduit : le modèle dans sa totalité ou certains éléments (Djelic et Amdam, 2007;Zeitlin et Herrigel, 2000;Grünbacher, 2012). Il s'agit là d'interroger les dimensions de l'américanisation et par extension, de la convergence des pratiques (Rasheed et Yoshikawa, 2012), c'est-à-dire d'identifier les éléments ou composantes des modèles de management qui convergent.…”

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Les dimensions de l’américanisation en question : modalités d’adoption de l’idéologie de la valeur actionnariale dans les rapports annuels d’entreprises du CAC 40 (1998-2012)

Boncori

2015

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L’américanisation, en tant que processus d’importation de modèles de management américains, soulève deux principales questions : 1) la question de ce qui est transféré et adopté, c’est-à-dire de ses dimensions : le modèle dans son ensemble ou ses composantes; 2) celle des modalités d’adoption de ces éléments. L’ambition de cet article est d’y répondre en étudiant les dimensions et modalités d’adoption de la composante idéologique du modèle américain de la création de valeur actionnariale en France et ce, sur une quinzaine d’années. Les résultats révèlent une faible adoption de la composante idéologique du modèle de la valeur actionnariale au sein du CAC 40, au bénéfice de l’hybridation et du particularisme.

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‘Honourable Men’: West German Industrialists and the Role of Honour and Honour Courts in the Adenauer Era

Grünbacher

2013

Contemporary European History

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This article argues that traditional conceptions of honour and the social practices based on them were both persistent yet at the same time very fragile and changeable amongst post-war German steel industrialists. After a brief overview of how bourgeois honour developed up to the early 1950s, a study of the honour court case of one of the leading men of heavy industry, Hermann Reusch of Gutehoffnungshütte, which ran from 1947 to 1949, will be presented. This is followed by a description of the ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Eisen und Stahl to establish honour councils to enforce a price policy across the association. Both cases highlight the rapidly changing social and economic culture in West Germany in the early 1960s.

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The Americanisation that never was? The first decade of theBaden-Badener Unternehmergespräche, 1954–64 and top management training in 1950s Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

The history of the modernisation construct

The history of the modernisation construct

Les dimensions de l’américanisation en question : modalités d’adoption de l’idéologie de la valeur actionnariale dans les rapports annuels d’entreprises du CAC 40 (1998-2012)

‘Honourable Men’: West German Industrialists and the Role of Honour and Honour Courts in the Adenauer Era

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