Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I From War Criminals to Captains of Industry -- 1 The 'Missing Link': The Role of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in...

Although it was initiated by the Allies as a kind of compromise in an Anglo-American dispute over banking policy in occupied Germany, and was thus an Allied creation, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) was soon to be called "a characteristic German institution". This was because of the...

This article will investigate why German business leaders during the 1950s resisted the American lead for advanced management training but instead developed theirvery own model, the <italic>Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche</italic> (BBUG). The article explains the origins, set-up and methods of the BBUG; it...