Governance in der Planwirtschaft: Industrielle Führungskräfte in der Stahl- und Textilbranche der SBZ/DDR (1945-1958)

Marcel Boldorf explores the values, rules, and principles of governance that emerged from denazification and the process of cadre selection while a centralized planned economy was set up in Soviet-occupied East Germany. He considers managerial decision-making and how much freedom of action management retained with mounting centralism. The study contributes thus to an understanding of transformational processes in post-1945 East Germany.