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040120 VO Business History (VO) (2015W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Details

max. 200 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 06.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 06.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 13.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 13.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 20.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 20.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 27.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 03.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Dienstag 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 10.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

6 October 2015 Introduction
The structure and performance of modern business

13 October 2015 Corporate ownership, governance, and finance

20 October 2015 Research and development

27 October 2015 Production

3 November 2015 Market structure and firm behavior

10 November 2015 Internationalization and globalization

17 November 2015 Written examination (60 Minutes)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Written exam, 60 Minutes.
A positive assessment of the lecture is only possible for students passing the exam.
The exam covers the content of the lecture and of the compulsory reading. Texts are provided on Moodle.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Introduction
Mark Casson
Institutional economics and business history: A way forward?
Business History, 39 (4), 1997, 151-

S.R.H. Jones
Transaction costs and the theory of the firm: The scope and limitations of the new institutional approach
Business History, 39 (4), 1997, 9-

C. Schmitz
The world’s largest industrial companies of 1912
Business History, 37 (4), 1995, 85-

P. Wardley
The emergence of big business: The largest corporate employers of labour in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, c. 1907
Business History, 41 (4), 1999, 88-

M.S. Smith
Putting France in the Chandlerian framework: France’s 100 largest industrial firms in 1913
Business History Review, 72 (1), 1998, 46-85

The structure and performance of modern business
Alfred D. Chandler
The competitive performance of United States industrial enterprises since the World War 2
Business History Review, 68 (1), 1994, 1-72

Alfred D. Chandler
Managerial enterprise and competitive capabilities
Business History, 34 (1), 1992, 11-41

David M. Higgins and Steven Toms
Explaining corporate success: The structure and performance of British firms, 1950-84
Business History, 53 (1), 2011, 85-118

Hugo van Driel, Ferry de Goey, and Jacques van Gerwen
Testing the Chandler thesis: Comparing middle management and administrative intensity in Dutch and US industries, 1900-1950
Business History, 49 (4), 2007, 439-463

Corporate ownership and governance
Leslie Hannah
The divorce of ownership from control from1900 onwards: Re-calibrating imagined global trends
Business History, 49 (4), 2007, 404-438

Brian Cheffins
Is Berle and Means really a myth?
Business History Review, 83 (3), 2009, 443-474

Jeffrey Fear and Christopher Kobrak
Diverging paths: Accounting for corporate governance in America and Germany
Business History Review, 80 (1), 2006, 1-48

Jeffrey Fear and Christopher Kobrak
Banks on board: German and American corporate governance, 1870-1914
Business History Review, 84 (4), 2010, 703-736


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:28