Bosch: History of a Global Enterprise
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Early years and rise of the company (1886-1932) -- 1 Robert Bosch - portrait of a founder -- 2 The difficult early years -- 3 The period of rapid growth -- The irresistible rise of the Bosch magneto -- The first regional subsidiaries and the conquest of the U.S. market -- The transition to a large-scale enterprise and the introduction of the eight-hour working day -- The strike of 1913 -- The company on the eve of the First World War -- 4 The First World War and its aftermath -- The war - a turning point -- Conversion to a stock corporation and establishment of VVB -- Changing times: Robert Bosch AG and the aftermath of war -- Organizational development and the evolution of a sense of identity -- 5 The 1926 crisis, and diversification in the Great Depression -- Causes, course, and repercussions of the great crisis of 1926 -- The restructuring of 1926-27 and the resolution of the crisis -- Trial and tribulation on the way to the diesel injection pump -- Building up a presence outside Germany and battling for the U.S. market -- Between sackings and shorter working weeks: Bosch in the Great Depression -- Power tools, refrigerators, radios, and gas-fired water heaters: the first phase of diversification and the rise of a conglomerate -- II Bosch in the Third Reich (1933-1945) -- 1 The Bosch Group in the economic upswing of National Socialism (1933-1939) -- The development of the enterprise and its subsidiaries -- The transformation of Robert Bosch AG into a GmbH -- 2 "Corporate community" versus "people's community": Bosch, the NSDAP, and the National Socialist regime -- Robert Bosch AG after the National Socialist assumption of power -- Clashes and compromises with the NSDAP -- Between "model company" and "state within the state": Bosch under wartime totalitarianism -- 3 Bosch and the Jews.