Resilienz: Unternehmenshistorische Dimensionen der Krisenrobustheit am Beispiel deutscher Brauereien in den 1970er Jahren

Köhler Ingo () and Schulze Benjamin W. ()
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Köhler Ingo: Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, D-37073 Göttingen
Schulze Benjamin W.: Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 6, D-37073 Göttingen

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2016, vol. 57, issue 2, 455-491

Abstract: The possibility to fail is inherent to entrepreneurial existence. The risk of a system – a company losing stability increases especially in economic crisis as well as in times of social change. Is it possible for companies to develop their own ‘immunity’ which would make it easier to minimize these risks? This paper examines German breweries during the structural change after ‘the boom’. First, the theory of resilience, here in the sense of crisis robustness, is critically analysed and the value for business research considered. Although the term ‘resilience’ was not used by contemporaries, it was, however, an already established concept of action, based on the interaction between anticipatory preparedness and situational flexibility.

Keywords: Braubranche; flexibility; Krise; Krisenbewältigung; preparedness; Resilienz; Risikomanagement; Unternehmensgeschichte; Brewing industry; crisis; the overcoming of crisis; resilience; risk management; business history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B D L N (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2016-0019

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