Tough business with clear fragility: Antonín Rückl and Sons, joint-stock company, Prague (1922-1946)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on three generations of glass entrepreneurs - from establishment of their company to its nationalization. It reflects company evolution, intergeneration mobility, changes of production design, strategy (especially in the years of depression), issue of cartels and function of lobby.

Keywords

• Czechoslovakia
• entrepreneur
• glass industry
• Rückl Antonín