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@article{ Kocka1971, title = {Family and bureaucracy in German industrial management, 1850-1914: Siemens in comparative perspective}, author = {Kocka, Jürgen}, journal = {Business history review}, number = {2}, pages = {133-156}, volume = {45}, year = {1971}, issn = {0007-6805}, abstract = {This study analyzes the changing role of pre-industrial family and bureaucratic traditions in the development of Germany's leading electrical manufacturing firm. The Siemens company developed a decentralized, multi-divisional structure ten to twenty years before duPont and General Motors pioneered a similar organization in the United States. The preindustrial bureaucratic traditions, considered in a multi-national context, facilitated the development of efficient modem management in Germany and help explain the relative success of German industry in the two decades before World War I.}, keywords = {Familie; family; Bürokratie; bureaucracy; Deutsches Reich; German Reich; Industriebetrieb; industrial enterprise; Management; management; 19. Jahrhundert; nineteenth century; 20. Jahrhundert; twentieth century; internationaler Vergleich; international comparison; historische Entwicklung; historical development; Großbetrieb; large-scale enterprise; Elektroindustrie; electrical industry; Unternehmensführung; business management; Konzern; trust}}