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%T Family and bureaucracy in German industrial management, 1850-1914: Siemens in comparative perspective %A Kocka, Jürgen %J Business history review %N 2 %P 133-156 %V 45 %D 1971 %@ 0007-6805 %X This study analyzes the changing role of pre-industrial family and bureaucratic traditions in the development of Germany's leading electrical manufacturing firm. The Siemens company developed a decentralized, multi-divisional structure ten to twenty years before duPont and General Motors pioneered a similar organization in the United States. The preindustrial bureaucratic traditions, considered in a multi-national context, facilitated the development of efficient modem management in Germany and help explain the relative success of German industry in the two decades before World War I. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info