Christian Marx
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Marx |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Marx |
| SIGNATURE | MARX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Trier , Forschungszentrum Europa, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte , Trier , 54286 , Germany . |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2192-569X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alina Marktanner, Behördenconsulting. Unternehmensberater in der öffentlichen Verwaltung der Bundesrepublik, 1970er- bis 2000er-Jahre. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 136.) Berlin/B…
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Das Führungspersonal der Reichsbank und das NS-Regime
Unter der Leitung ihres selbstbewussten Präsidenten Hjalmar Schacht inszenierte sich die Reichsbank in der NS-Zeit als Hort rationaler Währungspolitik. Obschon sie seit 1933 über die Mefo-Wechsel zur geheimen Rüstungsfinanzierung beitrug, kritisierte sie wenige Jahre später die inflationären Folgen der maßlosen Ausgabenpolitik. Daher stellte Hitler im Januar 1939 einen Großteil der Führungsfiguren außer Dienst. Fortan fungierte die Reichsbank als…
Confronting Decline
Die Deutsche Bundesbank in der Globalsteuerung
Keynesian-inspired macro regulation gained importance in West German economic policy from the mid-1960s and was enshrined in law through the Stability and Growth Act in 1967. In the context of the legislative process, the question arose as to what extent the Deutsche Bundesbank should be given new central bank instruments in order to achieve the goal of price stability. In the end, their implementation was rejected as the government demanded part…
Seitenwechsler im Zentralbankwesen – Karrieren im Beziehungsdreieck von Finanzwelt, Wissenschaft und Politik (1948 bis 1970)
The article examines the careers of German central bankers and the phenomenon of the revolving door in the first two postwar decades. It focuses on the personnel changes between central banking and politics resp. private banking and asks for the social structure of German central bankers, their training paths and changes in comparison to the Reichsbank era. Finally, the impact of recruitment practices on central bank policy will be outlined. The …
Rouven Janneck, Forschung und Unternehmenswandel. Die Steuerung der Unternehmensforschung und die Transformation der Bayer AG (1945–1984). (Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur …
Article Rouven Janneck, Forschung und Unternehmenswandel. Die Steuerung der Unternehmensforschung und die Transformation der Bayer AG (1945–1984). (Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens, Bd. 92.) Essen, Klartext 2020 was published on February 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 1)
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, the long-held confidence that ‘nationality’ would not matter in a globalised economy has dwindled. As the impact of economic and foreign policy on firms’ internationalisation and investment decisions appears to grow, and economic nationalism built on constructs of ‘nationality of the company’ gains weight, companies doing business abroad, including multinational enterprises operating in the US and …
Unternehmer und Manager in der NSDAP
Membership in the NSDAP can be interpreted as an important indicator for giving formal approval to the Nazi regime. Here we present the data set by which we analysed the importance of entrepreneurs and managers for the stabilisation of the Nazi dictatorship after 1933. For this purpose, we defined a specific group of German entrepreneurs and managers (N=537) as the business elite and examined their membership in the NSDAP. Following a short intro…
National conflicts in a multinational
Bringing together managers from different countries and cultures after international mergers is often seen as beneficial for the development of multinational companies. The article refers to existing approaches in the literature on modern cultural management and the organisation of multinationals to develop a framework explaining when and in which way national diversity affected the composition of the governing bodies and the strategy of the comp…
Johannes Bähr / Christopher Kopper, Industrie, Politik, Gesellschaft. Der BDI und seine Vorgänger 1919–1990. Göttingen, Wallstein 2019
Rüdiger Graf (Hrsg.), Ökonomisierung. Debatten und Praktiken in der Zeitgeschichte. (Geschichte der Gegenwart, Bd. 21.) Göttingen, Wallstein 2019
Ambivalences of nationality—Economic nationalism, nationality of the company, nationalism as strategy
Reorganization of Multinational Companies in the Western European Chemical Industry
Multinationals experienced a great growth after the European postwar boom. Factors in the 1970s included increasing competition from the United States, the emerging European market, as well as ongoing economic crises and changes in the international economy. The articles analyzes three case studies of Western European chemical companies—Hoechst, Akzo, and Rhône-Poulenc—to show the consequences of structural changes on management and the workforce…
Between national governance and the internationalisation of business. The case of four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres, 1945–2000
Although German companies lost their foreign assets after World War II, they returned quickly to the world market after 1945. While internationalisation during the post-war boom was mainly based on exports, foreign direct investment (FDI) increased enormously since the late 1960s. Simultaneously, the companies remained part of the German corporate network as a typical characteristic of Rhenish capitalism. Unlike many Varieties-of-Capitalism (VoC)…
Introduction
This article examines the emergence and development of the comparative analysis of capitalism and recent debates about Varieties of Capitalism (VoC). We argue that the VoC-approach should pay more attention to change over time, and only claim to put the firm in the centre of analysis. Hence, we propose another, more historical, analytic framework, which is based on the VoC-approach and historical institutionalism, and which fits better to an anal…
A European Structural Crisis Cartel as Solution to a Sectoral Depression
Due to the decline of the Western European textile industry in the 1960s and international economic turbulences in the 1970s, the chemical fibre industry in Western Europe ran into trouble. The ten largest manufacturers of polyester fibres therefore applied for a structural crisis cartel in 1972. Even though the European Commission rejected the request, the question of a cartel agreement remained a topic of discussion at the European level for mo…
Geschichte Deutschlands in der Industriemoderne. Une critique raisonnée
Knowledge Transfer in the Industrial Age
The question about how companies solved their existing information and knowledge problems is rarely examined for companies of the 19 th and 20 th century. Therefore the following contribution takes a closer look at the methods used by Gutehoffnungshütte in this period for obtaining the relevant information and how it ensured that the information would reach the particularly targeted employee. This case study of one of the most important pioneers …
Paul Reusch – ein politischer Unternehmer im Zeitalter der Systembrüche. Vom Kaiserreich zur Bundesrepublik
The generation of entrepreneurs socialized in the German Empire determined the economic development after 1918 and was also responsible for political events in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. The following article investigates the political attitude and the habitual (dis-)continuities of a symbolic figure and spokesman of German heavy industry in the first half of the 20th century. As part of his company’s expansion after the F…
Kontinuität und Wandel in der deutschen Unternehmensverflechtung
This article discusses the continuity of personal interlocks among German major companies from 1914 to 1938. Continuity in economic transactions together with concentration, cartelization and a corporative system is regarded as a main characteristic of the German production system. The paper analyses the continuity assumption concerning interlocks in a period of critical economic shifts and multiple changes of the political system. As a result, t…
Die Mischung macht's. Zur Bedeutung von kulturellem, ökonomischem und sozialem Kapital bei Paul Reusch während des Konzernaufbaus der Gutehoffnungshütte (1918-1924)
Netzwerkansätze in der Geschichtswissenschaft
Dieser Überblick soll zum einen über die Grundzüge der Verwendung von Netzwerk- Ansätzen durch Historiker unterrichten; zum anderen sollen die spezifischen, für die gegenwärtige historische Netzwerk-Forschung repräsentativen Fragestellungen und Themenfelder skizziert werden. Aus diesen Untersuchungsinteressen ergibt sich wiederum das besondere Ensemble der gegenwärtigen Methoden und Verfahren, das der gegenwärtigen historischen Forschung zu sozia…
Introduction
This article examines the emergence and development of the comparative analysis of capitalism and recent debates about Varieties of Capitalism (VoC). We argue that the VoC-approach should pay more attention to change over time, and only claim to put the firm in the centre of analysis. Hence, we propose another, more historical, analytic framework, which is based on the VoC-approach and historical institutionalism, and which fits better to an anal…
Ambivalences of nationality—Economic nationalism, nationality of the company, nationalism as strategy
Between national governance and the internationalisation of business. The case of four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres, 1945–2000
Although German companies lost their foreign assets after World War II, they returned quickly to the world market after 1945. While internationalisation during the post-war boom was mainly based on exports, foreign direct investment (FDI) increased enormously since the late 1960s. Simultaneously, the companies remained part of the German corporate network as a typical characteristic of Rhenish capitalism. Unlike many Varieties-of-Capitalism (VoC)…
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Reorganization of Multinational Companies in the Western European Chemical Industry
Multinationals experienced a great growth after the European postwar boom. Factors in the 1970s included increasing competition from the United States, the emerging European market, as well as ongoing economic crises and changes in the international economy. The articles analyzes three case studies of Western European chemical companies—Hoechst, Akzo, and Rhône-Poulenc—to show the consequences of structural changes on management and the workforce…
Kontinuität und Wandel in der deutschen Unternehmensverflechtung
This article discusses the continuity of personal interlocks among German major companies from 1914 to 1938. Continuity in economic transactions together with concentration, cartelization and a corporative system is regarded as a main characteristic of the German production system. The paper analyses the continuity assumption concerning interlocks in a period of critical economic shifts and multiple changes of the political system. As a result, t…
Die Mischung macht's. Zur Bedeutung von kulturellem, ökonomischem und sozialem Kapital bei Paul Reusch während des Konzernaufbaus der Gutehoffnungshütte (1918-1924)
Netzwerkansätze in der Geschichtswissenschaft
Dieser Überblick soll zum einen über die Grundzüge der Verwendung von Netzwerk- Ansätzen durch Historiker unterrichten; zum anderen sollen die spezifischen, für die gegenwärtige historische Netzwerk-Forschung repräsentativen Fragestellungen und Themenfelder skizziert werden. Aus diesen Untersuchungsinteressen ergibt sich wiederum das besondere Ensemble der gegenwärtigen Methoden und Verfahren, das der gegenwärtigen historischen Forschung zu sozia…
Kontinuität und Wandel in der deutschen Unternehmensverflechtung
This article discusses the continuity of personal interlocks among German major companies from 1914 to 1938. Continuity in economic transactions together with concentration, cartelization and a corporative system is regarded as a main characteristic of the German production system. The paper analyses the continuity assumption concerning interlocks in a period of critical economic shifts and multiple changes of the political system. As a result, t…
Paul Reusch – ein politischer Unternehmer im Zeitalter der Systembrüche. Vom Kaiserreich zur Bundesrepublik
The generation of entrepreneurs socialized in the German Empire determined the economic development after 1918 and was also responsible for political events in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. The following article investigates the political attitude and the habitual (dis-)continuities of a symbolic figure and spokesman of German heavy industry in the first half of the 20th century. As part of his company’s expansion after the F…
Knowledge Transfer in the Industrial Age
The question about how companies solved their existing information and knowledge problems is rarely examined for companies of the 19 th and 20 th century. Therefore the following contribution takes a closer look at the methods used by Gutehoffnungshütte in this period for obtaining the relevant information and how it ensured that the information would reach the particularly targeted employee. This case study of one of the most important pioneers …
Geschichte Deutschlands in der Industriemoderne. Une critique raisonnée
A European Structural Crisis Cartel as Solution to a Sectoral Depression
Due to the decline of the Western European textile industry in the 1960s and international economic turbulences in the 1970s, the chemical fibre industry in Western Europe ran into trouble. The ten largest manufacturers of polyester fibres therefore applied for a structural crisis cartel in 1972. Even though the European Commission rejected the request, the question of a cartel agreement remained a topic of discussion at the European level for mo…
Reorganization of Multinational Companies in the Western European Chemical Industry
Multinationals experienced a great growth after the European postwar boom. Factors in the 1970s included increasing competition from the United States, the emerging European market, as well as ongoing economic crises and changes in the international economy. The articles analyzes three case studies of Western European chemical companies—Hoechst, Akzo, and Rhône-Poulenc—to show the consequences of structural changes on management and the workforce…
Between national governance and the internationalisation of business. The case of four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres, 1945–2000
Although German companies lost their foreign assets after World War II, they returned quickly to the world market after 1945. While internationalisation during the post-war boom was mainly based on exports, foreign direct investment (FDI) increased enormously since the late 1960s. Simultaneously, the companies remained part of the German corporate network as a typical characteristic of Rhenish capitalism. Unlike many Varieties-of-Capitalism (VoC)…
Introduction
This article examines the emergence and development of the comparative analysis of capitalism and recent debates about Varieties of Capitalism (VoC). We argue that the VoC-approach should pay more attention to change over time, and only claim to put the firm in the centre of analysis. Hence, we propose another, more historical, analytic framework, which is based on the VoC-approach and historical institutionalism, and which fits better to an anal…
Johannes Bähr / Christopher Kopper, Industrie, Politik, Gesellschaft. Der BDI und seine Vorgänger 1919–1990. Göttingen, Wallstein 2019
Rüdiger Graf (Hrsg.), Ökonomisierung. Debatten und Praktiken in der Zeitgeschichte. (Geschichte der Gegenwart, Bd. 21.) Göttingen, Wallstein 2019
Ambivalences of nationality—Economic nationalism, nationality of the company, nationalism as strategy
Rouven Janneck, Forschung und Unternehmenswandel. Die Steuerung der Unternehmensforschung und die Transformation der Bayer AG (1945–1984). (Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur …
Article Rouven Janneck, Forschung und Unternehmenswandel. Die Steuerung der Unternehmensforschung und die Transformation der Bayer AG (1945–1984). (Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens, Bd. 92.) Essen, Klartext 2020 was published on February 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 314, issue 1)
International business, multinational enterprises and nationality of the company
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, the long-held confidence that ‘nationality’ would not matter in a globalised economy has dwindled. As the impact of economic and foreign policy on firms’ internationalisation and investment decisions appears to grow, and economic nationalism built on constructs of ‘nationality of the company’ gains weight, companies doing business abroad, including multinational enterprises operating in the US and …
Unternehmer und Manager in der NSDAP
Membership in the NSDAP can be interpreted as an important indicator for giving formal approval to the Nazi regime. Here we present the data set by which we analysed the importance of entrepreneurs and managers for the stabilisation of the Nazi dictatorship after 1933. For this purpose, we defined a specific group of German entrepreneurs and managers (N=537) as the business elite and examined their membership in the NSDAP. Following a short intro…
National conflicts in a multinational
Bringing together managers from different countries and cultures after international mergers is often seen as beneficial for the development of multinational companies. The article refers to existing approaches in the literature on modern cultural management and the organisation of multinationals to develop a framework explaining when and in which way national diversity affected the composition of the governing bodies and the strategy of the comp…
Seitenwechsler im Zentralbankwesen – Karrieren im Beziehungsdreieck von Finanzwelt, Wissenschaft und Politik (1948 bis 1970)
The article examines the careers of German central bankers and the phenomenon of the revolving door in the first two postwar decades. It focuses on the personnel changes between central banking and politics resp. private banking and asks for the social structure of German central bankers, their training paths and changes in comparison to the Reichsbank era. Finally, the impact of recruitment practices on central bank policy will be outlined. The …
Das Führungspersonal der Reichsbank und das NS-Regime
Unter der Leitung ihres selbstbewussten Präsidenten Hjalmar Schacht inszenierte sich die Reichsbank in der NS-Zeit als Hort rationaler Währungspolitik. Obschon sie seit 1933 über die Mefo-Wechsel zur geheimen Rüstungsfinanzierung beitrug, kritisierte sie wenige Jahre später die inflationären Folgen der maßlosen Ausgabenpolitik. Daher stellte Hitler im Januar 1939 einen Großteil der Führungsfiguren außer Dienst. Fortan fungierte die Reichsbank als…
Confronting Decline
Die Deutsche Bundesbank in der Globalsteuerung
Keynesian-inspired macro regulation gained importance in West German economic policy from the mid-1960s and was enshrined in law through the Stability and Growth Act in 1967. In the context of the legislative process, the question arose as to what extent the Deutsche Bundesbank should be given new central bank instruments in order to achieve the goal of price stability. In the end, their implementation was rejected as the government demanded part…
German chemical firms in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Alina Marktanner, Behördenconsulting. Unternehmensberater in der öffentlichen Verwaltung der Bundesrepublik, 1970er- bis 2000er-Jahre. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 136.) Berlin/B…
Political science (18 works) · European history and politics (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · German (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economy (8 works) · History (8 works) · Economic history (7 works)