nach Aktenlage

05:17 Sep 25, 2020 

Thank you everyone for the great help: Very greately appreciated! I finally chose staid and punctilious.

09:52 Sep 20, 2020 

Thanks! That is also my supposition. But I'm going to get back to rhe customer on it.

09:46 Sep 20, 2020 

I can't help with a translation, but the term has nothing to do with actual archives. Instead, it is used figuratively and suggests an uncreative, unimaginative and bureaucratic person who only manages the company instead of truly leading it.

06:59 Sep 20, 2020 

That's understandable :)

06:56 Sep 20, 2020 

What's the point of saying you have no context? It's simply not true.

06:52 Sep 20, 2020 

This is the entire passage:
Damit treffen auf den wichtigsten Posten der BASF zwei grundverschiedene Denklinien aufeinander.
Hier der Temperamentsbolzen Brudermüller.
Dort der Klarsichthüllengigant Bock.
Bock, gebürtiger Westfale und gelernter Finanzer, hatte die BASF in seiner aktiven Zeit im Wesentlichen nach Aktenlage verwaltet.
Die wenigen Impulse, die er gab, fanden kaum den Weg über den Vorstandsflur hinaus.
Denn Bock rechnete stets spitz.
Allein aus Preisgründen überließ er Konkurrenten die Agrochemieriesen Syngenta (heute unter chinesischer Führung) und Monsanto (heute Teil des Bayer-Konzerns).

06:48 Sep 20, 2020 

As with your other question, it's an article from Manager Magazin, which I can't access - maybe it's behind a paywall.