Das quantifizierte Unternehmen: Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung und Entscheidungen in der deutschen chemischen Industrie, 1863–1916

Today, the significance of operational accounting in corporate decision-making is undisputed. But was this also true for companies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This book answers this question by looking at the German chemical industry and provides new insights into the development of management and financial knowledge between the 1860s and the First World War.