Edited by Wenzel Matiaske and Dieter Sadowski

About the book

In the recent past, business studies has not shown much interest in its own development in the history of ideas. There are various reasons for this, including the enormous growth of the discipline and its successful internationalisation, which left little time for retrospective self-assurance and room for the development of disciplinary independence in a multidisciplinary environment. However, forgetting one's own discipline not only leads to a discipline that frequently reinvents solutions to problems instead of building on existing approaches, but also harbours the danger of losing the constituent problems and questions.

In German-speaking business studies there has therefore been a renewed interest in recent years in bringing important contributions to the history of ideas in business studies and the roots of the discipline into the academic consciousness. This book makes an important contribution to this endeavour. It continues the discussion and focuses on the areas of production, operations research, innovation, marketing, finance, sustainability management, public management, non-profit management and international management.

The authors identify and discuss distinctive ideas and contributions to the development of the discipline. In addition to looking back, the current state of the discipline is also analysed. On this basis, the authors derive possible directions for further development.

The content

• Production
• Operations Research
• Innovation
• Sustainability management
• Marketing
• Finance
• Public Business Administration
• Non-Profit Management
• International Management

About the editors

Prof. Dr Wenzel Matiaske is Professor of Business Administration at the Institute of Human Resources and Labour at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and Research Fellow at DIW Berlin.

Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Dieter Sadowski was Professor of Business Administration, specialising in international comparative personnel economics and labour policy, and Director of the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community (IAAEG).