The Impact of the Preindustrial Heritage

Bernd Dornseifer and Jürgen Kocka

Chapter 14 in Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise, 1996, pp 336-352 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In what ways and to what extend did ‘preindustrial factors’ shape the path of corporate development in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This is an often-asked but yet not fully explored question (Kocka, 1970). ‘Preindustrial factors’ in this context refers to institutional structures and resources which had originated before industrialization proper started in the 1830s and 1840s: to handicraft and guild traditions, to family and kinship-networks, to the already well-developed school and university system, and, last but not least, to the massive neoabsolutist state-bureaucracy and the corresponding experience of state intervention and modernization ‘from above’. The role these factors played in the evolution of industrial enterprises in Germany, one of the authors has argued, was reinforced by the fact that industrialization started late in comparison with other parts of Western Europe, Great Britain in particular, but then took place more rapidly at least in some important sectors (Kocka, 1980, pp. 107–10).

Keywords: Technological Capability; Industrial Enterprise; German Firm; Interwar Period; Machinery Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13389-5_15

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