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Taming Giant Projects
Giant projects often end in giant failures. From the ancient tower of Babel to the recent Transrapid Train, giant projects stumble from crisis to crisis. Based on an analysis of the technical, time, and financial goals from case studies (Olympic Games, university hospitals, and a huge wind energy converter), four success factors in managing giant projects are identified: Formulation and change of goals, basic configuration, socio-political environment, and management structure and capacity. The book focuses on the crucial role of the project owner and the relations among the four success factors. It offers recommendations and guidance on successfully completing giant projects to owners, project managers and contractors.
The Jews of Vienna and the First World War
The first account of the experience of Viennese Jewry during the First World War, exploring the wartime crises of Jewish ideology and identity.
Management Ideas
This book offers a short history of business administration in four parts. Part 1 takes the reader from 8000 BCE with the development of simple control techniques to the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, normative, empirical, and theoretical approaches to business problems in the industrial area were developed. Furthermore, more powerful methodologies came into use. In Part 2, the criteria for science are discussed and related to the development of business administration as a science at the beginning of the twentieth century. Part 3 demonstrates, using Germany as an example, the development of business administration as strongly influenced by its societal environment. The case...
From Prejudice to Persecution
According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938. In contrast to works that view anti-Semitism as an inherent national characteristic, his account identifies many sources and varieties of the anti-Semitic sentiment that pervaded Austrian society on the eve of the Holocaust.
Comparative Corporate Governance
"This book goes back to a symposium held at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg on May 15-17 1997"--P. [v].
Disjoined Partners
Is there a natural tendency toward the political integration of states that are united in culture but divided in politics? Disjoined Partners arrives at a largely negative response. In an application of political science techniques to a subject traditionally in the domain of history, Peter J. Katzenstein analyzes Austro-German relations since 1815 in six chronologically arranged case studies. Asking why these partners remain disjoined, Katzenstein finds the answer in the persistence of Austria’s political autonomy. In an appendix, the author illustrates how this type of analysis could be extended to include an examination of the unification of Germany and of Italy in the middle of the nine...
Else Lasker-Schuler
Else Lasker-Schuler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde cafe life in pre-World War I Berlin in much the same way Gertrude Stein did in Paris around the same time. While her work is not yet very well known in the English-speaking world, it has been enjoying a critical and popular revival in Germany. This full-length biography of Lasker-Schuler--the first in English--explores her poems, plays, prose and graphic works in light of her life. It begins with her fleeing to Switzerland after Hitler's accession to power in 1933, looks back at her childhood in Wuppertal, then follows her life through to its end in Jerusalem in January 1945. As a Jew, a woman and a bohemian, Lasker-Schuler defied every category. Her two marriages--first to Dr. Berthold Lasker, then to Herwarth Walden, founder of the leading avant-garde periodical, gallery and publishing house, Der Sturm (The Storm)--as well as her interactions with Karl Kraus, Franz Marc, Gottfried Benn, Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, are documented in letters and poems, many included here both in the original and in translation.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Der Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft
Der Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB) wurde 1921 gegründet und hat sich seitdem als der wichtigste wissenschaftliche Verband im Fach Betriebswirtschaft im deutschsprachigen Raum etabliert. Dieses Buch bietet erstmals eine systematische Darstellung der Entwicklung des VHB und damit ebenso der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (BWL). Die Geschichte des VHB und der BWL wird durch Überblicksbeiträge verdeutlicht sowie durch Kurzbeiträge und persönliche Erzählungen führender Fachvertreter ergänzt. Im Anhang finden sich relevante Daten zum VHB. Der erste Teil zeigt die Phasen der Entwicklung des VHB: die Gründungsphase (1921-1933), die Zeit um den Zweiten Weltkrieg (1934-1947), die Zeit nach der Wiedererrichtung (1948-1970) und die Zeit des Wachstums (1970-2000). Der zweite Teil gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, die mit der Geschichte des VHB sowohl über die handelnden Personen als auch die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte eng verbunden ist. Der dritte Teil beinhaltet Ausführungen zu zeitperiodenübergreifenden, wiederkehrenden Themen, die die BWL und den VHB beschäftigt haben und beschäftigen.
