HANS-LIUDGER DIENEL is Acting Director of the Center for Technology and Society of the Berlin University of Technology, and Director of the Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Berlin (www.ztg.tu-berlin.de; www.nexus-berlin.com). His research foci are historical innovation research, mobility research, and research on knowledge and cooperation management.

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Linde as a Producer of Refrigeration Equipment Linde Enters in Liquefaction and Separation of Gases Linde During National Socialism, 1933-1945 Linde During the Great Economic Boom, 1945-1966 The 1970s: From Engineering to Management-Driven Business Normal Operations for the First Time: From Reorganization to the AGA-purchase, 1984-1999 Linde in the Twenty-first Century Appendix

HANS-LIUDGER DIENEL is Acting Director of the Center for Technology and Society of the Berlin University of Technology, and Director of the Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Berlin (www.ztg.tu-berlin.de; www.nexus-berlin.com). His research foci are historical innovation research, mobility research, and research on knowledge and cooperation management.

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Linde as a Producer of Refrigeration Equipment Linde Enters in Liquefaction and Separation of Gases Linde During National Socialism, 1933-1945 Linde During the Great Economic Boom, 1945-1966 The 1970s: From Engineering to Management-Driven Business Normal Operations for the First Time: From Reorganization to the AGA-purchase, 1984-1999 Linde in the Twenty-first Century Appendix