Zwischen Projektionsfläche und Handlungsraum
Raumvorstellungen bei Bayer und PCAC, 1890 bis 1914
Publication date
2007-04-01
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Organisational unit
Freie Universität Berlin
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Series or journal
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
ISSN
Periodical volume
52
Periodical issue
1
First page
59
Last page
86
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
German
Abstract
The following paper seeks to conceive space as a core category of corporate organization, especially in periods of structural change. Based on two case studies from French and German chemical enterprises between 1890 and 1914, it highlights how different agents tried to shape space in order to make it functional within the organisation of their enterprises. The German Bayer company tried to actively define new borders and hierarchies inside the enterprise by planning a new plant at Leverkusen. By contrast, French PCAC's inorganic production was largely dependent on its natural environment in the Alps and at its sites near the Mediterranean Sea. Instead of actively transforming its organization, it tried to adjust it to its external determinants. In either case, space was a contentious factor in designing new corporate structures, whether treated as an external or a functional factor.
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