From steam to diesel : managerial customs and organizational capabilities in the twentieth-century American locomotive industry /
A comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the origins of the diesel engine in great detail. What it does is to demonstrate how managers addressed radical shifts in technology and production...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
1998.
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| 丛编: | Princeton studies in business and technology.
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=78392 |
书本目录:
- I. Steam vs. Diesel: The Capabilities and Requirements of a Radically New Technology
- II. Internal-Combustion Railcars: Springboard to Participation in the Diesel Locomotive Industry
- III. First-Mover Advantages and the Decentralized Corporation
- IV. ALCo and Baldwin: Established Companies, New Technologies
- V. Policy and Production during World War II
- VI. Postwar Dieselization and Industry Shakeout
- VII. The Era of Oligopoly.